[Graham Mayor]

There is no 'autosave' in Word - merely autosave recovery information, and
that only occurs if Word crashes. A forced shutdown by update is not a
crash. You can, using macros force Word to autosave, but personally I would
find it very intrusive - see http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm.
You should not be working on a document *for several hours* without saving.!
Save manually and often!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



4blove wrote:
ok. maybe you can help me. I did he exact same thing butthis has
happen to me before. therfore, i set my 10 minute auto save. but
when i went back to retrieve my document, my computer shut down(I
assume to update). But i do not understand why it did not auto save
prior. becasue i worked on it several hours before i left it
idiling. also, i am not able to retrieve any activites for that day.
i had several windows open, but it will not show those activities.
do you ahve any suggestions on where i might can retrive this data.
Also, I am using vista

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

That's the point - if the document was not saved, there is nothing to
retrieve.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



4blove wrote:
Ok, it may have been "foolish" or "Insane " to leave a document open
over night. but your comment about the behavior is not needed. I
did the same thing on 7/17/08. And I too, am very devestated. So
please refrain from your opinion of the action, but give us helpful
advice. Because if that person was nearly as hurt as I was then
they already cried, screamed, belittled ourselves and more. So what
advice do you have to retrieve this document.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It is foolish to leave a document open unattended (much less
overnight). It is insane to leave an unsaved document open.
AutoRecovery helps only if Word crashes, but in this case what has
happened is that Windows Update, running in full-auto mode,
downloaded updates while you were away, installed them, and then
needed to restart Word. It did ask if you wanted to save your
document, but you weren't around to see that, so it autocratically
shut down your document and Word in order to restart Windows.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"smile5" wrote in message
...
I left a 2003 Word document open around 2 this morning at 8 when I
came back
to it was closed. and all the work I did from 10-2 is gone... I
thought I could use the auto recovery but I've been unsuccesful
even finding it.. please help
os is vista