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[jacey]

I just lost three scenes from the new ending of 'Empire of Dust' with a single careless click. All today's work, in fact. I thought I had Word set to save automatically every ten minutes... in fact I did... so WTF is it?

I hate bloody Microshaft. (Okay, it's my fault, but I still hate bloody Microshaft!)

Nuff said.

If anybody has a magic retrieval spell please let me know.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Have you tried reopening word? If you didn't close the file down properly, it'll come up as 'recovered file' the next time you do - well, eight times out of ten, but it's worth a try.

I have to admit <whispers> that I like Word. Well, Word 2004/OSX; can't say anything about other versions, though I used to like Word 5, too. (6 was an abomination.)

Other than styled outlines, Word does everything I want it to do. I like its style handling, I like some of the options it offers (such as a double underline which I use a lot and some word processors just don't cater for), and I adore the comment feature which is a godsent for inline critting. Search-and-replace, replacing styles (two actions to reformat a mss *without destroying any special formatting I put into place*), skipping from found object to found object... I'm afraid that other than the outlines thing, Word does exactly what I need.

I hope you get your text back, though.