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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
Every now and then, after blundering around, I get this question.
"Do you wish to revert to ...?" Yes/No The worst part is that I am now locked into something, there's no escaping answering. AND! no indication or intuitive concept of what the consequences of my decision will be. Not knowing how I got to this point, I've sometimes answered NO and sometimes answered YES. Sometimes losing data, sometimes stomping on files [it seems]. Each time I wish I had one more option CANCEL to get back to whatever got me to this question, but that option is not allowed. Would someone please explain what energizes that question, and exactly what damage I can do to my stored, modified document files. Robert |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
It would be more helpful if you would post the complete wording of messages
that you see. Otherwise, you're forcing someone to guess at what the problem might be. Also, when asking about Word, it's really important to state what version of Word you are using and what version of Windows you have. So here is my guess: If a document becomes damaged, so that Word can no longer save it, then the next time you open Word it will ask if you want to use ("revert to") the last saved version of the document. If you agree to this you will lose all changes made to the document since the last time it was successfully saved, but usually you have no other choice. Typically, Word automatically saves your document every 10 minutes, so unless you manually saved your document more recently, that's the version of your document that Word will use. Daddy "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... Every now and then, after blundering around, I get this question. "Do you wish to revert to ...?" Yes/No The worst part is that I am now locked into something, there's no escaping answering. AND! no indication or intuitive concept of what the consequences of my decision will be. Not knowing how I got to this point, I've sometimes answered NO and sometimes answered YES. Sometimes losing data, sometimes stomping on files [it seems]. Each time I wish I had one more option CANCEL to get back to whatever got me to this question, but that option is not allowed. Would someone please explain what energizes that question, and exactly what damage I can do to my stored, modified document files. Robert |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
I believe that one instance in which you get that message is when you have a
document open, edited but unsaved, and you click the name of the same document on the File menu (usually inadvertently). Word wants to know if you want to revert to the saved version, losing your current edits. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... Every now and then, after blundering around, I get this question. "Do you wish to revert to ...?" Yes/No The worst part is that I am now locked into something, there's no escaping answering. AND! no indication or intuitive concept of what the consequences of my decision will be. Not knowing how I got to this point, I've sometimes answered NO and sometimes answered YES. Sometimes losing data, sometimes stomping on files [it seems]. Each time I wish I had one more option CANCEL to get back to whatever got me to this question, but that option is not allowed. Would someone please explain what energizes that question, and exactly what damage I can do to my stored, modified document files. Robert |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
On Nov 9, 9:08*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I believe that one instance in which you get that message is when you have a document open, edited but unsaved, and you click the name of the same document on the File menu (usually inadvertently). Word wants to know if you want to revert to the saved version, losing your current edits. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... Every now and then, after blundering around, I get this question. "Do you wish to revert to ...?" *Yes/No The worst part is that I am now locked into something, there's no escaping answering. *AND! no indication or intuitive concept of what the consequences of my decision will be. Not knowing how I got to this point, I've sometimes answered NO and sometimes answered YES. Sometimes losing data, sometimes stomping on files [it seems]. Each time I wish I had one more option CANCEL to get back to whatever got me to this question, but that option is not allowed. Would someone please explain what energizes that question, and exactly what damage I can do to my stored, modified document files. Robert Thank you for your reply. I'll bet that's what has been happening. Because Word doesn't open a second application like Notepad or Paint, etc.; it is very easy to have multiple incidences open 'inside' the application. Sometimes question appears when closing out the application, not just opening. That definitely explains why sometimes YES causes loss of data and NO would have been best, but then again, sometimes YES is best in order to save data as close application. Do you have any rule of thumb? Robert |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
On Nov 9, 8:06*am, "Daddy" wrote:
It would be more helpful if you would post the complete wording of messages that you see. Otherwise, you're forcing someone to guess at what the problem might be. Also, when asking about Word, it's really important to state what version of Word you are using and what version of Windows you have. So here is my guess: If a document becomes damaged, so that Word can no longer save it, then the next time you open Word it will ask if you want to use ("revert to") the last saved version of the document. If you agree to this you will lose all changes made to the document since the last time it was successfully saved, but usually you have no other choice. Typically, Word automatically saves your document every 10 minutes, so unless you manually saved your document more recently, that's the version of your document that Word will use. Daddy "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... Every now and then, after blundering around, I get this question. "Do you wish to revert to ...?" *Yes/No The worst part is that I am now locked into something, there's no escaping answering. *AND! no indication or intuitive concept of what the consequences of my decision will be. Not knowing how I got to this point, I've sometimes answered NO and sometimes answered YES. Sometimes losing data, sometimes stomping on files [it seems]. Each time I wish I had one more option CANCEL to get back to whatever got me to this question, but that option is not allowed. Would someone please explain what energizes that question, and exactly what damage I can do to my stored, modified document files. Robert Thank you for your reply. Yes, should have noted Word97 on Win98FE Exact wording?! I would have to write down in long hand, something that went by during a frustrating period of trying to do something. Just not concentrating on the exact wording while fussing around with Word. More interested in accomplishing my edit to a .doc file. Rarely [I think] do I have a corrupted file. But your mention of saving every 10 minutes is interesting. That could definitely cause weird stuff. Compounding this problem is can't remember exactly what action causes the question to pop up. Just appears and have no idea how to cancel the action to go back to before I did that action. The action, that caused the question to come up to begin with. At least then, I could figure out what action brought the question up. From experiencing multiple times, sometimes the data is destroyed and sometimes the data is saved, just did not seem consistent. I think Suzanne may have predicted my misstep. Sometimes the error message pops up when opening, sometimes when closing, and I can't remember which action I was doing to figure out which answer is best this time. That's why a 'cancel' would have been nice. Robert |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
I'm afraid I don't have any rule of thumb. I generally try not to have TOO
many documents open and to keep my wits about me. What can be very confusing, though, is opening a lot of documents with similar names (especially when the File menu shows only part of the name). Sometimes I do click on one that's already open instead of one I just closed and want to open again. Usually, though, I have them open just for reference and am not editing them, so no harm is done. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Nov 9, 9:08 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I believe that one instance in which you get that message is when you have a document open, edited but unsaved, and you click the name of the same document on the File menu (usually inadvertently). Word wants to know if you want to revert to the saved version, losing your current edits. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... Every now and then, after blundering around, I get this question. "Do you wish to revert to ...?" Yes/No The worst part is that I am now locked into something, there's no escaping answering. AND! no indication or intuitive concept of what the consequences of my decision will be. Not knowing how I got to this point, I've sometimes answered NO and sometimes answered YES. Sometimes losing data, sometimes stomping on files [it seems]. Each time I wish I had one more option CANCEL to get back to whatever got me to this question, but that option is not allowed. Would someone please explain what energizes that question, and exactly what damage I can do to my stored, modified document files. Robert Thank you for your reply. I'll bet that's what has been happening. Because Word doesn't open a second application like Notepad or Paint, etc.; it is very easy to have multiple incidences open 'inside' the application. Sometimes question appears when closing out the application, not just opening. That definitely explains why sometimes YES causes loss of data and NO would have been best, but then again, sometimes YES is best in order to save data as close application. Do you have any rule of thumb? Robert |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
On Nov 9, 2:40*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have any rule of thumb. I generally try not to have TOO many documents open and to keep my wits about me. ....snip... Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "...to keep my wits about me." ouch. ...but true |
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Help, what does, "Do you wish to revert...?" mean ? !
Yeah, I hope that didn't sound patronizing. The fact is that most of our
worst errors occur when we panic. In most cases, Undo is the Panic Button, but some actions can't be undone, and that's where we really get in trouble. As you say, though, it's the dialog that pops up when you're concentrating on something else that is always the danger. If you have your mouse options set to select the default button in dialogs automatically, a stray click (intended for something else) when a dialog pops up) can be a disaster. Something flashes in your face while you're working on something else, then vanishes, leaving you wondering, "What did I just say OK to?" -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Nov 9, 2:40 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't have any rule of thumb. I generally try not to have TOO many documents open and to keep my wits about me. ....snip... Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "...to keep my wits about me." ouch. ...but true |
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