[livetohike]

I have a couple of extremely important documents that I tend to work
on for days at a time. I 'save' frequently but may leave the doc open
for several days.

How can I do the following:

-Automatically save a new version (backup) of Word doc every few
minutes (if it has changed) or at least every time I 'save'.

-Have each version time stamped or at least have a unique name.

-Do the above ONLY for the Word docs I select. (not all of them).

-I am willing to take a hit on slower saves if I can get the above
functionality.

-I am willing to manually housekeep the large number of backups that
may result.

If someone has an alternate approach, please share that as well.

Thanks

[Peter A]

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, says...
I have a couple of extremely important documents that I tend to work
on for days at a time. I 'save' frequently but may leave the doc open
for several days.

How can I do the following:

-Automatically save a new version (backup) of Word doc every few
minutes (if it has changed) or at least every time I 'save'.

-Have each version time stamped or at least have a unique name.

-Do the above ONLY for the Word docs I select. (not all of them).

-I am willing to take a hit on slower saves if I can get the above
functionality.

-I am willing to manually housekeep the large number of backups that
may result.

If someone has an alternate approach, please share that as well.


When I have a critical document such as this, I save it under different
names every hour or so - MyDocument-a.doc, MyDocument-b.doc, and so on.
Then, if a problem arises I have lost at most an hour of work.

I also save to two physically different locations, such as my regular My
Documents on the C drive and also to an external USB drive (a hard drive
and not a USB "Flash" drive") so that if my main drive goes into the
grass I will still have a recent copy.

One of the people here - Graham Mayor I believe - put out a terrific
macro that automatically saves a doc to 2 different locations.

--
Peter Aitken
Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers
www.tech-word.com

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/save_numbered_versions.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



livetohike wrote:
I have a couple of extremely important documents that I tend to work
on for days at a time. I 'save' frequently but may leave the doc open
for several days.

How can I do the following:

-Automatically save a new version (backup) of Word doc every few
minutes (if it has changed) or at least every time I 'save'.

-Have each version time stamped or at least have a unique name.

-Do the above ONLY for the Word docs I select. (not all of them).

-I am willing to take a hit on slower saves if I can get the above
functionality.

-I am willing to manually housekeep the large number of backups that
may result.

If someone has an alternate approach, please share that as well.

Thanks

[livetohike]

On Apr 21, 3:02 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Seehttp://www.gmayor.com/save_numbered_versions.htmandhttp://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org


livetohikewrote:
I have a couple of extremely important documents that I tend to work
on for days at a time. I 'save' frequently but may leave the doc open
for several days.

How can I do the following:

-Automatically save a new version (backup) of Word doc every few
minutes (if it has changed) or at least every time I 'save'.

-Have each version time stamped or at least have a unique name.

-Do the above ONLY for the Word docs I select. (not all of them).

-I am willing to take a hit on slower saves if I can get the above
functionality.

-I am willing to manually housekeep the large number of backups that
may result.

If someone has an alternate approach, please share that as well.

Thanks

Thanks, just what I noted. As described below I believe there is an
error in the code. (I notified the author as well).

In order to get it to work I had to change the following:
strFileB = "D:\My Documents\Word Backup\Backup " & strFileA

to:
strFileB = "D:\My Documents\Word Backup\Backup\" & strFileA

I appended the back slash and deleted the space immediately preceding
the ending quote.

[Graham Mayor]

livetohike wrote:
Thanks, just what I noted. As described below I believe there is an
error in the code. (I notified the author as well).

In order to get it to work I had to change the following:
strFileB = "D:\My Documents\Word Backup\Backup " & strFileA

to:
strFileB = "D:\My Documents\Word Backup\Backup\" & strFileA

I appended the back slash and deleted the space immediately preceding
the ending quote.

There is nothing wrong with the code (and I don't recall receiving a comment
from you about it). You merely have an extra subdirectory in your path from
that used in the macro. The page merely demonstrates a method; there is
nothing written in stone as to how you should format you filenames and
paths.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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