computer help again
Aug. 16th, 2010 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraI have an old version of Works with Word on my two XP computers. No, I'm not going to get specific about just how old because telling you will shortcircuit the conversation straight to "you need to upgrade" which will not be helpful. I am going on record to say that this is not the time to upgrade, to new MS Word (which I am not willing to spend the money on right now, anyway) or to Open Office or to anything else that will upset my routine. I like my old version of Works with Word, and it's going to take wild horses and dynamite to get me to upgrade to the newer versions which I have used elsewhere and are ack-ptui. It works well on my desktop, and has not given me any trouble there.
When I bought my netbook last winter, I loaded this version of Works with Word onto the netbook for consistency's sake (also because I hate the Works word processor that it came with with a purple passion). For about eight months it's been running just fine.
This afternoon it crashed a document. I was able to recover the document, or so I thought, but it turns out that the recovery process only saved less than half of the document (not quite a full page).
I write my fiction on my netbook (because it does not have the distraction of the internet when I'm home with it the way my desktop does). What I lost today was a simple article, easily (if frustratedly) rewritten. My fiction is not like that.
The crash (basically a dialog box saying that Word was going to close without my having saved the article whether I wanted it to or not no matter what I did, OWTTE) occurred while I was attempting to save the article. Then when I tried to recover the article it kept reopening that ^&%$&$ dialog box. I went to the help function and it told me how to recover the article, so I did that. And I got half the article back.
I do not want this to happen to my fiction. I need to be able to use this version of Word to write my fiction on my netbook without this fear.
What do I do to ensure this? Is there a way to make Word save automatically while I'm working so that even if this happens again the stuff's still saved? Or is there a way to circumvent the crash message so that I can save before it gives me that dialog box from hell?
Yes, I back my fiction up already. In several ways. I'm not talking about losing umpteen pages. I'm talking about losing a couple of hours worth of work on the day that I wrote it because Word might not let me save it before this happens.
Help? In words of one syllable, preferably. And ones that take into account what I am and am not willing to do, because if you don't, don't bother. But I do need someone to bother, so don't everyone not bother, please.
When I bought my netbook last winter, I loaded this version of Works with Word onto the netbook for consistency's sake (also because I hate the Works word processor that it came with with a purple passion). For about eight months it's been running just fine.
This afternoon it crashed a document. I was able to recover the document, or so I thought, but it turns out that the recovery process only saved less than half of the document (not quite a full page).
I write my fiction on my netbook (because it does not have the distraction of the internet when I'm home with it the way my desktop does). What I lost today was a simple article, easily (if frustratedly) rewritten. My fiction is not like that.
The crash (basically a dialog box saying that Word was going to close without my having saved the article whether I wanted it to or not no matter what I did, OWTTE) occurred while I was attempting to save the article. Then when I tried to recover the article it kept reopening that ^&%$&$ dialog box. I went to the help function and it told me how to recover the article, so I did that. And I got half the article back.
I do not want this to happen to my fiction. I need to be able to use this version of Word to write my fiction on my netbook without this fear.
What do I do to ensure this? Is there a way to make Word save automatically while I'm working so that even if this happens again the stuff's still saved? Or is there a way to circumvent the crash message so that I can save before it gives me that dialog box from hell?
Yes, I back my fiction up already. In several ways. I'm not talking about losing umpteen pages. I'm talking about losing a couple of hours worth of work on the day that I wrote it because Word might not let me save it before this happens.
Help? In words of one syllable, preferably. And ones that take into account what I am and am not willing to do, because if you don't, don't bother. But I do need someone to bother, so don't everyone not bother, please.
