Motherf.... Screw Word

[Qacer]

Stupid Microsoft Word 2007.. I saved the document multiple times throughout the day. When I closed the Word application, it asked me to save the document, so I did, but then it continued asking me to save the document. I figured since I hit Save multiple times already then it was good to go, so I just closed Word. When I tried opening the document again, my work was gone.

Anyone know if MS Word 2007 has a temp file directory?

 

[CRXican]

user error

 

[KeithTalent]

Word sucks ass.

KT

 

[maziwanka]

you probably opened the file from an email attachment and it's in a temp director. just open another file the same way you did and see where it saved the file

 

[Regs]

My guess is you originally opened up the file from a temporary source (email) and forgot to save as it. The file reverts back to its original file from the temp source.

 

[DaveSimmons]

This is why you Save As and change the name. Then you'd have doc1, doc2, doc3, ... to go back to.

 

[spidey07]

Is this your first time using a computer?

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Regs

My guess is you originally opened up the file from a temporary source (email) and forgot to save as it. The file reverts back to its original file from the temp source.

Don't close the email if you still have it open though!

If you made your changes on an emailed copy and hit save, it will save against the email. When you close the email it will ask you whether or not you want to save changes to the email, which includes the changes you made to the doc.

If the email is still open, try opening the document from the email itself.
If you already closed the email, you're likely screwed, sorry.

(If you opened the doc from another source, like a website, it might be stored in a temp directory.)

 

[ViviTheMage]

SAVE AS, so you know where it goes....

 

[Qacer]

The file wasn't opened from my email. It was Draft 6 of a Word document that I had saved in My Documents. I opened it from My Documents. The weird thing is that I had another Word file (commented draft) that I used to track the changes I made on Draft 6. That file was saved.

 

[BassBomb]

At least you didn't delete a few hundred connection pipes on a PID project, only to realize you were in the WRONG project file.. So I effectively deleted tons that weren't supposed to be.

Its taken me the entire day to get it back to normal since the program is terribly slow

 

[Nik]

Pirated copies of Microsoft Office 2007 (or copies that are not yet validated) don't allow you to save you work.

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😉

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Is this your first time using a computer?

:laugh:

 

[scott916]

Word does have temp files, but I believe they're deleted when you close the program. Do a search, it may be buried in some obscure temp directory.

 

[randay]

this thread is not completely until the OP mentions something about buying a mac because this would have never happened etc....

 

[Deeko]

Who are you, Ellen Feis?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-UuIEOcss

 

[mekon]

If your "home", i.e. "my documents", area is located on a server which has issues such as disk corruption then this is also a likely symptom. Incorrectly assigned folder permissions are also a possibility. In the former this may be obvious to the server admin because they will see lots of write errors on the server's screen (if they happen to look, remote desktop/terminal services won't always help because usually it's not a server console session) and can affect lots of people, whereas the latter needs specific attention to the folder in question, but can be fixed easily.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: CRXican
user error

 

[FoBoT]

good thing it has auto save

 

[esun]

So...stop using Word? Given a choice, I always choose something else to write my documents.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: esun
So...stop using Word? Given a choice, I always choose something else to write my documents.

Why? I don't particularly love Word, but it's the industry standard and I can't see anything glaringly crappy about it relative to any other word processor.

 

[esun]

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone

Originally posted by: esun
So...stop using Word? Given a choice, I always choose something else to write my documents.

Why? I don't particularly love Word, but it's the industry standard and I can't see anything glaringly crappy about it relative to any other word processor.

Well, for me, there are programs that make documents that look much better than what Word generally produces. Furthermore, those programs require substantially less effort to use (despite the initial learning curve) than Word does.

For example, I recently didn't have a choice for some documentation. I was asked to do it in Word by my manager, since the project may in the future be modified by someone unfamiliar with LaTeX (my document typesetter of choice).

Open Word and try this. Start typing a sentence in its default font, then try changing the font and font size at the same time. For example, start with

"My name is "

then go up to the ribbon and select any other font, and select any other font size (e.g., Courier New size 10). You won't be able to do it. You can do one or the other, but not both. Rather, you'll have to start typing the subsequent word, then highlight it to change the font and font size, then continue typing. That is glaringly crappy behavior in my opinion. I ended up defining a style to fix the problem, but it's still much, much faster in LaTeX to type, for example, "My name is \texttt{blah}" or, "My name is \verb|blah|."

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: esun

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone

Originally posted by: esun
So...stop using Word? Given a choice, I always choose something else to write my documents.

Why? I don't particularly love Word, but it's the industry standard and I can't see anything glaringly crappy about it relative to any other word processor.

Well, for me, there are programs that make documents that look much better than what Word generally produces. Furthermore, those programs require substantially less effort to use (despite the initial learning curve) than Word does.

For example, I recently didn't have a choice for some documentation. I was asked to do it in Word by my manager, since the project may in the future be modified by someone unfamiliar with LaTeX (my document typesetter of choice).

Open Word and try this. Start typing a sentence in its default font, then try changing the font and font size at the same time. For example, start with

"My name is "

then go up to the ribbon and select any other font, and select any other font size (e.g., Courier New size 10). You won't be able to do it. You can do one or the other, but not both. Rather, you'll have to start typing the subsequent word, then highlight it to change the font and font size, then continue typing. That is glaringly crappy behavior in my opinion. I ended up defining a style to fix the problem, but it's still much, much faster in LaTeX to type, for example, "My name is \texttt{blah}" or, "My name is \verb|blah|."

I think where we differ is that I have no need for a "document typesetter" - I've never heard of such a thing - nor do I have formatting needs that are in any way complicated. I'm sure the same is true of at least 99.5% of Word users. I don't particularly like Word but the fact that it isn't a natural "document typesetter" doesn't deter me.

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: esun

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone

Originally posted by: esun
So...stop using Word? Given a choice, I always choose something else to write my documents.

Why? I don't particularly love Word, but it's the industry standard and I can't see anything glaringly crappy about it relative to any other word processor.

Well, for me, there are programs that make documents that look much better than what Word generally produces. Furthermore, those programs require substantially less effort to use (despite the initial learning curve) than Word does.

For example, I recently didn't have a choice for some documentation. I was asked to do it in Word by my manager, since the project may in the future be modified by someone unfamiliar with LaTeX (my document typesetter of choice).

Open Word and try this. Start typing a sentence in its default font, then try changing the font and font size at the same time. For example, start with

"My name is "

then go up to the ribbon and select any other font, and select any other font size (e.g., Courier New size 10). You won't be able to do it. You can do one or the other, but not both. Rather, you'll have to start typing the subsequent word, then highlight it to change the font and font size, then continue typing. That is glaringly crappy behavior in my opinion. I ended up defining a style to fix the problem, but it's still much, much faster in LaTeX to type, for example, "My name is \texttt{blah}" or, "My name is \verb|blah|."

I just did this in Word 2000 and Word 2003 (I don't have 2007) and both did it perfectly fine. I typed the words, highlighed them, changed the font and font size, deselected the highlighted words (both by arrow key and mouse click), and continued typing in the new font and size just exactly as I would expect it to behave.

If I am misunderstanding and you are expecting the program to change the font/size of the highlighted text but have all new text appear in the old font/size without telling the program to do that, then I would have to say that you are looking for it to perform "glaringly crappy behavior" as it would mean the program was doing something different than my instruction (to change the font type/size).