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can I recover a word file that was saved over using Save As
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Only if you have the "Always create backup copy" back checkec in
ToolsOptionsSave. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Tom M" Tom wrote in message ... |
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Doug, how dose the always create backup copy work? I am assuming that
once I have completed with my document I will have the original and a backup. Is this correct? Lets say that I accidentally clicked on NO when I intended to click on YES and when I open the document its missing half of what I just wrote. Will the back up copy have the missing part? Here is another question. How does the Save AutoRecover info Every: 10 minutes. Work? And if I had had this option set to every 2 minutes would it of saved my information? If when I closed my document, it had just finished doing a save. Need clarification on these options. Art. "Doug Robbins" wrote: Only if you have the "Always create backup copy" back checkec in ToolsOptionsSave. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Tom M" Tom wrote in message ... |
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For explanations, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm and http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. In essence, the "Always create backup copy" stores a renamed copy of the document *as it was at the time of the last save* -- this is *not* what's usually meant by "backup". If you save, wipe out half of the document, and save again, the "backup" will have the missing half. But if you save, type 10 pages, and then close without saving again, those 10 pages are *gone* -- never to return. They simply never got written to the disk. The AutoRecover feature is another case of "less than meets the eye". An AutoRecover file is automatically erased when you exit from Word normally (File Exit or click the X button). It relies on the fact that if Word crashes, it won't have a chance to erase the AutoRecover file, which will be discovered the next time Word starts. Don't count on it making up for your mistakes, because it won't even be there when you need it. One last thing to remember when you get that "oh s**t" feeling: as long as you don't close the document, you can usually get back to where you were by pressing Undo (Ctrl+Z) enough times. The worst thing you can do is panic and close the document or close Word, because then the Undo list in memory gets wiped out. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:22:02 -0700, Art wrote: Doug, how dose the always create backup copy work? I am assuming that once I have completed with my document I will have the original and a backup. Is this correct? Lets say that I accidentally clicked on NO when I intended to click on YES and when I open the document its missing half of what I just wrote. Will the back up copy have the missing part? Here is another question. How does the Save AutoRecover info Every: 10 minutes. Work? And if I had had this option set to every 2 minutes would it of saved my information? If when I closed my document, it had just finished doing a save. Need clarification on these options. Art. "Doug Robbins" wrote: Only if you have the "Always create backup copy" back checkec in ToolsOptionsSave. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Tom M" Tom wrote in message ... |
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