[Peter T. Daniels]

When you're fast-typing, is it possible you're hitting Ctrl-A (which
selects everything) and then typing some other letter (which
overwrites it)?

On Feb 23, 2:03*am, Rose415 wrote:
For the last couple weeks I have been having a problem with my word. I
will be typing and I will mistype something (I don't know what, I type
somewhat fast and have not been able to figure out what actually
triggers it) and the entire document closes. When I reopen the document,
all the content is gone. This has happened with documents that have file
names and also with one that had content previously saved in it. I
checked autorecovery, and there is no copy of the document saved in
there. I have no idea what I am pressing to make this happen but I have
lost class notes mid-class twice now and a long document of presentation
notes that really screwed me so I really need to figure it out! I have
tried undo in the document, but since I reopened it, there is no action
to undo. I have also tried pressing random key combinations to try and
replicate the response but to no avail. I have tried ctrl+F4, which
prompts my to save the document before closing, as well as ctrl=W, which
does the same thing. I have also initiated automatic back ups of my
documents, but the backup ends up blank as well. I assume that there is
some command I am mistakenly pressing and that if I remove the command,
I won't have to worry about pressing it accidentally. However I have no
idea what command would both CLOSE windows and DELETE all the data in
it. Does anyone know what this command might be and how I might fix it?
I really can't have this happen when I'm writing thesis notes or
chapters so I need to get it fixed ASAP. Thank you!

~Rose

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Rose415