<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>ridethewood: <pre><p>Tbh, this would be awesome, but so would all of the hundreds of computer tips I forget. Anybody have a compilation?</p></pre>RedditPotatoPlanet: <pre><p>Save it in Word, I guess. Don't let it crash, though.</p></pre>jayamshah99: <pre><p>Or do let it crash, it'll be saved as an .asd file anyway right?</p></pre>Gilroydude: <pre><p>But you wouldn't remember to search for the .asd file because your word doc just crashed.</p></pre>Trisa133: <pre><p>damn sounds like the same problem I have with being fat</p></pre>Asian_Domination_: <pre><p>One simple trick to burn fat!</p></pre>ThatOneGingerGui: <pre><p>Doctors hate him!</p></pre>Uncle_Lenny: <pre><p>Woah dude, this isn't the place for holocaust jokes geez.</p></pre>mrsirofvibe: <pre><p>This is getting out of mein kampfert zone right here</p></pre>wwecat: <pre><p>Well to be blunt, I'm surprised we did nazi this coming. </p></pre>StevieMJH: <pre><p>Yeah, well if you stop being fat you can go out and get some exercise. Seriously. Enough with the excuses.</p></pre>JimmyIntense: <pre><p>Schrodinger's crash</p></pre>cole338: <pre><p>Its the catch, catch 22</p></pre>fuckwhoyouknow: <pre><p>In newer Microsoft office versions, when you open up word it'll ask you if you want to save the closed documents that are unsaved</p></pre>goldenpaperclip: <pre><p>Tried it. </p>
<p>On pornhub. Not sure what to do now. </p></pre>Phaz0n: <pre><p>Sigh, unzip.</p></pre>DamnedWhenIDid: <pre><p>unzip what?</p></pre>J_90: <pre><p>.asd file</p></pre>folksyframe592: <pre><p>How?</p></pre>Un_creative_name: <pre><p>Purchase winrar. </p></pre>DamnedWhenIDid: <pre><p>Oh!</p></pre>propanetank: <pre><p>It would only have what's been done since last auto save. By default it's 10 min I believe. So if it crashes 9 minutes in, you won't find it cause it hasn't saved yet. Or if you're 19 minutes in, you've lost 9 minutes of work. I usually set it down to 5.</p></pre>Snow_Wonder: <pre><p>Yes. And the most recent versions of word prompt you if they have autosaved/not user saved work and have a folder of them that you can view. Despite this I have still lost work to word crashing while saving. One time it just outright deleted the file which was extremely weird. Only happened to me once, but I had backed the file up via email the night before so it wasn't that big a deal. Still don't know why :/</p></pre>20CharactersAintEnou: <pre><p>Does this count as meta</p></pre>JUSTplayIN25: <pre><p>I just have a folder on my phone (I use the mobile app) called "Life Pro Tips" and I screenshot the ones I want to remember. I crop them and look at them every once in a while. I'm thinking about making more folders with all the different categories, it's getting too much. </p></pre>pinkshortsarecool: <pre><p>Sharing is caring</p></pre>Reddits-Reckoning: <pre><p>I wish there was a better way to categorize your saved posts on reddit. </p></pre>CosmoVerde: <pre><ul>
<li><p>check back on/ read this later</p></li>
<li><p>masturbate to this later</p></li>
</ul>
<p>All I need it two folders.</p></pre>TheApathetic: <pre><p>Yep. Pretty accurate. </p></pre>ImFatWannaParty: <pre><p>That's fine until you go to wrist one off and you realize your whacking it to a LPT on how to fold a shirt in three seconds.</p></pre>CosmoVerde: <pre><p>Or an NSFW TIFU post. Sigh.</p></pre>you_got_fragged: <pre><p>oh hell yeah...</p></pre>DJScozz: <pre><p>I'm fairly certain I remember Reddit Gold offering that option. Although, I'd be surprised if RES didn't offer it; however, it may be a computer-by-computer basis in RES as idk if they offer a syncing option between browsers. </p></pre>Thiago270398: <pre><p>RES have it's own saved folder.</p>
<p>You could use it for your porn and the normal one for the other shit.</p></pre>ThePokemon_BandaiD: <pre><p>You should put it in a Google doc or something and share it so everyone can have your beautiful library of LPTs. Just make sure it's set so people can't edit it.</p>
<p>And if you do do that, make sure to let me know and also post it.</p></pre>Miyagis: <pre><p>Two LPTs in one post. What a bargain!</p></pre>ridethewood: <pre><p>I started doing this, but then I realized I shouldn't have to waste 10 minutes of my life on this every time I want to remember something important.</p></pre>Elon_Morin_Tedronai: <pre><p>Depending on the tip, it could save you much more time in the long run.</p></pre>ywingisthebestwing: <pre><p>You have to much free time</p></pre>MayorMcCheezz: <pre><p>I just screen shot the tip.</p></pre>Icedragn: <pre><p>I screen shot just the tip.</p></pre>ImNako: <pre><p><em>just the tip</em></p></pre>notyourfish: <pre><p>The tip.</p></pre>FilthyFrankVEVO: <pre><p>Just.</p></pre>10narpi: <pre><p>The</p></pre>Alternating_forces: <pre><p>Tip.</p></pre>kitthekat: <pre><p>.</p></pre>hype8912: <pre><p>You could start a github file for others to contribute to. </p></pre>PinchoEscobar: <pre><p>I've started using sticky notes. Not the app but legit old school sticky notes stuck to my monitor perimeter</p></pre>kelseymh: <pre><p>Maybe start a folder with screenshots? Or something on word</p></pre>UhOhFeministOnReddit: <pre><p>You can just click save beneath OP's post...</p>
<p>Which is what I did, because this LPT just changed my life.</p></pre>examinedliving: <pre><p>Use <a href="http://gist.github.com" rel="nofollow">gist</a>. Save your snippets.</p></pre>tomdarch: <pre><p>The trick with this is to remember that Word makes an ongoing backup, then you do what all programmers do: google for a reminder of the solution.</p>
<p>Lots of other pro life tips? I got nothing.</p></pre>irocgts: <pre><p>Lpt dont use word. Use google docs</p></pre>Technicolor-Panda: <pre><p>At least now I know there is a tip I need to look up if this happens.</p></pre>asspirin: <pre><p>Lol, google?</p></pre>UniQMG: <pre><p>That, or you obsessively press ctrl+s every 5 seconds.</p></pre>chiller8: <pre><p>With every period ctrl+s. </p></pre>UniQMG: <pre><p>Macros to press it every keystroke!</p></pre>RockSta-holic: <pre><p>Google docs </p></pre>manycactus: <pre><p>Which, unfortunately, isn't very good for professional work.</p></pre>snkn179: <pre><p>Really? I mean, isn't it pretty similar to Word minus the hundreds of fonts which you'll never use anyway? Plus google docs lets more than one person edit a document simultaneously which I can imagine being quite useful for certain jobs.</p></pre>paperairplanerace: <pre><p>Not the person you asked, but: Docs sucks at formatting and fucks it all up and doesn't convert well to or from Word.</p></pre>Alexstarfire: <pre><p>It's ok, Word doesn't format well to most anything else either, assuming you have more than just basic text.</p>
<p>Google Docs ends up being far more advantageous where I work because several people can collaborate on it at once.</p></pre>Vandalism_: <pre><p>Your company doesn't have an actual collaborative tool like SharePoint? </p></pre>robak69: <pre><blockquote>
<p>tfw ur workplace is stuck in stone age</p>
</blockquote></pre>dougiefresh1233: <pre><p>Sharepoint's not really the same thing. With Google docs you can have multiple people actively editing at the same time. With SharePoint you have to check it out and back in for other people to edit it. For formal reports and anything the requires formatting Word is way better, but Google Docs is a more effective solution for just jotting down notes or doing a rough draft of something</p></pre>Alexstarfire: <pre><p>We use multiple, depending on what your actual work is. Doesn't make Docs any less better than Word because of that though.</p></pre>iamPause: <pre><p>He should praise the Lord for his good fortune. Fuck whoever thought of SharePoint. Fuck. That. Shit. </p></pre>ColdPorridge: <pre><p>Fortunately once its in word you really rarely need to convert it to anything else, since 98% of the world uses word.</p></pre>Hebejeebez: <pre><p>Serious question though: Isn't this less of a flaw with Docs and more of an issue with the fact that not enough people use Docs as opposed to Word? If everyone used Docs then you wouldn't have to worry about the formatting converting from one to the other</p></pre>revvupthosefryers: <pre><p>Why ever convert it to Word? Export pdf or continuously work on it in docs. </p></pre>BreafingBread: <pre><p>As an academic I've noticed that. Quite a problem since I don't have a printer so when I go print it at another pc it's all fucked.</p>
<p>To remedy it now I save all my files in PDF.</p></pre>InvertibleMatrix: <pre><blockquote>
<p>To remedy it, I now save all my files in PDF</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That doesn't help me at all. Google's exporting to PDF often gives me a a document that's not formatted right either (different from how if I print it directly), which is also different from if I hit print and export to PDF in Firefox/Safari on Mac. Neither of them look right, which gets very frustrating (I've stuck Word or Pages since I hate the UI for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.Org). It seems to work correctly if I use it on Chrome in Linux, but I refuse to use Chrome...</p></pre>manycactus: <pre><p>Google Docs is good for simultaneous collaboration (which is a relatively rare need). It's also good for a lot of school research paper tasks. </p>
<p>But it has formatting problems and can't do as much fine formatting as Word. It doesn't play particularly well with Word. It's change tracking and comparison functions are worse. And it lacks a bunch of niche features that Word has.</p></pre>Kezika: <pre><p>The most recent version of Office has live collaboration as well for businesses.</p></pre>turn_right_from_here: <pre><p>Honestly it's perfect for me. Word is way too complicated and heavy for most things. I haven't used Microsoft Office in years. </p>
<p>Or even windows except for games. Hail linux lmao</p></pre>Teeter477: <pre><p>Linux: for when Microsoft products just have <em>too many</em> features.</p></pre>MadDogMax: <pre><p>I mean, I've used Microsoft my whole life for personal, school and now work use, and can't see myself stopping any time soon.<br/>
That being said, Microsoft have been seriously fucking retarded in the last few years in regard to their OS in particular. I don't blame anyone for moving away from something that frequently bricks devices with mandatory updates.</p></pre>Alexstarfire: <pre><blockquote>
<p>I don't blame anyone for moving away from something that frequently bricks devices with mandatory updates.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'd rather devices be secure. There's never a perfect answer.</p></pre>ZaneHannanAU: <pre><p>"Security by failure"</p></pre>UniQMG: <pre><p>Plus who is going to pay for Office when docs is free? It may not have all the bells and whistles but who really needs those? If you're making a super fancy presentation, stop and ask yourself, why are you making it so fancy? It's meant to get information across, not to look pretty.</p>
<p>It's alright if you get a free copy of it though.</p></pre>Vandalism_: <pre><p>I've never paid for office... Most schools will provide it for free or a huge discount, and any workplace that uses it will provide it. </p></pre>Not2BeEftWith: <pre><p>When a product is "free" you are the product. </p></pre>manycactus: <pre><p>Word is a very powerful word processor, but that comes at the cost of complexity. There's nothing wrong with using something more attuned your needs.</p></pre>welcome_to_the_creek: <pre><p>Real LPT...comments... y'all motherfuckers ain't new here, you know what I'm saying.</p></pre>WestbyNortheast: <pre><p>But that's only like once a month. Probably not enough, I'm thinking.</p></pre>meshedsabre: <pre><p>Seriously. I can't imagine working on a document and not saving constantly. I tend to save every few sentences I type.</p>
<p>I even do it with long Internet posts. I sometimes write them in a document first, so I don't lose them in a browser crash. Nothing is as deflating as losing the last 20 minutes of your life (especially when it was wasted on stupid Internet bullshit as it is).</p></pre>jax3rir: <pre><p>Add-on: Lazarus.
Saves whatever you type in a text field in your browser.</p></pre>Khyrberos: <pre><p>I've needed this... For so long.</p></pre>FuckYouLetsFight: <pre><p>Can I remote install this?</p></pre>Funktionierende: <pre><p>Yeah... Half the time that's what crashes it for me. :/</p></pre>paperairplanerace: <pre><p>Yeah this, why is this not like constant muscle memory for all of us by now? I'm so glad I do this!</p></pre>iliketojog: <pre><p>accidently delete document then it auto saves and you somehow quit word</p></pre>wookiestackhouse: <pre><p>Also AutoRecover is <em>not</em> the same as AutoSave. </p>
<p>Back in the 90s, by default office used to save changes into the original file every x minutes. This was autosave. </p>
<p>These days office saves changes into temporary files that is deleted if word is closed gracefully. That means if you didn't save and close word and purposefully click no I don't want to save, your changes will be lost. </p>
<p>Luckily in office 2013 and up there is an option to recover unsaved documents which can help. </p></pre>justfor1t: <pre><p>There's <a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Help-protect-your-files-in-case-of-a-crash-551c29b1-6a4b-4415-a3ff-a80415b92f99">this though, practically the same</a></p></pre>Kabayev: <pre><p>Yeah… I learned this the hard way on Thursday morning. Woke up at 5 am to finish a research paper due the same day. Wrote about 6 pages and I accidentally pressed Command - Q instead of Command - W (was trying to close a different Word document, but quit all of Word).</p>
<p>Running on low sleep, I just pressed enter for the screen that asked me if I want to discard my changes.</p>
<p>Deleted about 5 hours of work in 3 seconds. </p>
<p>Called Microsoft and they were like "yeaaaaaaaaah, you dun goofed"</p></pre>OsamaBongLoadin: <pre><p>If Word completely crashes, sometimes the tmp files will stick around. You can raise those from the dead by finding the "import from data" button (I forget exactly where it is) and choosing those until you find the most recently saved one. </p></pre>Rasta7Joe: <pre><p>IT Professional here: Though most modern word processors have autosaving/autorecovering features, most people do not know how they work. For instance, when using Microsoft Word, simply Press control-shift-Q and the log of previously saved copies of the document should appear. That is, if they haven't changed it in the new version, I'm still using Windows 1998 when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table</p></pre>Rubyjunk: <pre><p>You're not <a href="/u/shittymorph">/u/shittymorph</a></p></pre>calyp5e: <pre><p>Just tried ctrl shift q in word 2013. Didn't do anything </p></pre>The_MAZZTer: <pre><p>In Word 2016 it changes the font to Symbol. Not sure why.</p></pre>SoftcoreDeveloper: <pre><p>This is an academic lifesaving tip that's too late for me to use!</p></pre>ProbablyHighAsShit: <pre><p>I'm surprised cloud storage hasn't become a standard/free service for Office suite yet. Risk of losing data on local storage should be a thing of the past by now.</p></pre>OfficialMI6: <pre><p>You get 1TB free OneDrive storage with office 365, which is integrated into windows 10 and is available to install for older versions of windows and MacOS.</p>
<p>Despite this you still have to save in the regular way for changes to be uploaded and syncing isn't always instant I've found.</p></pre>Babaorileystavern: <pre><p>Not OP but I've purchased office a month ago but I don't have OneDrive. Currently I have 5GB free, but I use Google Drive right now. </p>
<p>Can I redeem the 1TB somehow and get it? I heard OneDrive is more user friendly than GD.</p></pre>propanetank: <pre><p>If you purchased the subscription you get it automatically. Otherwise the one time purchase you need to get one drive separately. Think it's $10/month for 1TB (last I checked)</p></pre>Babaorileystavern: <pre><p>Ah crap, thanks</p></pre>Lazmarr: <pre><p>Or student version, five years office for £50 which includes 1TB OneDrive. The 1TB also seems to get added to the amount you had before and lasts the five years; 1 year office came with my student surface, so I purchased the student office and I now have 6 years of office and 2TB of OneDrive :) </p></pre>almeertm87: <pre><p>You don't have to hit save if you're typing it in Word Online, which saves it automatically as you type. Also great for sharing and collaborating on group projects etc. </p></pre>TomMado: <pre><p>Also OneDrive sucks balls. Not stable at all compared to DropBox (best reliability; always works) or Google Drive (mostly stable and have Google Docs et al.; have to restart when lost connection).</p></pre>isthatanexit: <pre><p>Agreed. OneDrive got disabled a long time ago. Between Gmail/Drive/Google Docs I have no need for it </p></pre>RavioliSause: <pre><p>As a highschooler, nobody I know uses Office Suite anymore; we've all switched to Google drive where it saves as you write and you can easily collaborate for group projects. It also helps that many teachers use Google Classroom to structure their assignments.</p></pre>whereami1928: <pre><p>I'll do the same, but I've found myself using Word at times when formatting matters. Docs always tends to have formatting that is just a <em>bit</em> off.</p></pre>manycactus: <pre><p>Unfortunately, Docs is a joke for even semi-professional word processing work.</p></pre>ePants: <pre><p>Yep. </p>
<p>It's very useful for collaborative drafting, but I can't imagine using it for final drafts. </p></pre>WestbyNortheast: <pre><p>Yes. Google Docs doesn't do running heads well for APA.</p></pre>Zulfiqaar: <pre><p>I use LaTeX when formatting really matters - if it doesn't then other stuff is just good enough</p></pre>CharlestonChewbacca: <pre><p>If you plan on a career that will put you in any sort of office setting, I would encourage that you start using the Microsoft Office Suite. </p>
<p>Google Docs is perfectly fine for any High School papers you may do, but it's a joke for any kind of professional work or anything that requires formatting. </p></pre>byehavefun: <pre><p>Dude your sentences right there were like mind blowing to me. </p>
<p>I will preface this by saying I'm stoned AF.</p>
<p>Those words your typed to make sentences and whatnot blew my mind up. If I was in high school when I was really there that sentence would be like so foreign to me. </p>
<p>We just like typed up our assignments and handed them in but you could usually get away with hand writing it and then having the teacher tell you that you can type at home and then print at school. </p>
<p>It never occurred to me that you and your classmates did all the digital type stuff. </p>
<p>Dude, being in high school right now sounds so much fun. That's awesome. You should enjoy it even though it might seem lame but it's not trust me. College was fun too and I grew as a person and yadda yadda yadda but high school was where I could still be a kid but still have my parents take care of everything for me. </p></pre>nept_r: <pre><p>It trips me out too. It wasn't long ago that in order to work on a group assignment in college we'd have to schedule time to meet on or off campus, which always meant there'd be at least one no-show, then you'd spend 45min just figuring out how to even get started, and by then someone already had to leave for work or kids or whatever. Now it's: upload assignment to Google docs, everyone comment or highlight what you feel comfortable doing, add your part in the next 2 weeks then we'll review it and go from there. So much easier and streamlined, and everyone knows where everyone is at. Also, Google docs tracks who adds what to the doc, so no more someone taking credit for shit they didn't do (if it's an issue). It's all there. We're living in the future!</p></pre>PatrickTheDev: <pre><p>Local storage doesn't have much to do with it. It's that someone didn't save it yet. The asd is the Auto Save Document, which would work the same (more or less) even if it was stored online. </p>
<p>Besides, Office 365 <em>does</em> come with online One Drive storage.</p></pre>OfficialMI6: <pre><p>I think what they may have been suggesting is something like google docs, where there isn't actually any need to worry about saving the document. The latest version is what is always saved, although I believe it stores changes so you can go back in versions.</p></pre>chucksimpson: <pre><p>It's a pain to format in Google docs compared to word. </p></pre>CharlestonChewbacca: <pre><p>It has...</p></pre>emplah: <pre><p>I read this as "If the world crashes".</p>
<p>Also, are these the files that make up your autorecovery file list when you reopen word?</p></pre>P3ccavi: <pre><p>Same here, and that's how I realized I really need new glasses</p></pre>moderately-extremist: <pre><p>I was confused for a second what anyone would be concerned with their documents when the world was crashing down.</p></pre>fizzrate: <pre><p>Use google docs. It's free and every time you type a key it auto saves. </p></pre>bbonthec: <pre><p>On a Mac, Pages had the same "always on" autosave feature. All Mac apps do, in fact.</p></pre>futzlarson: <pre><p>Right? Why would you ever use a standalone word processor and local files anymore? After however many years it's been, I've yet to ever miss Word.</p></pre>chrono116: <pre><p>That's nice, but what if I'm typing words without the letter a? Will it still autosave?</p></pre>: <pre><p>[deleted]</p></pre>HwanZike: <pre><p>It does not if you use the chrome app</p></pre>UniQMG: <pre><p>Not if you get the app version, which I believe is included by default on chrome.</p>
<p>edit: not sure if desktop chrome version is offline. Android app version definitely is.</p></pre>Quickzoom: <pre><p>Is there one of these tricks for Excel???</p></pre>nayhem_jr: <pre><p>Set up a backup scheme and autosaving <em>before</em> you run into trouble.</p></pre>DummyCreature0: <pre><p>What about us mac users? Are we just SOL?</p></pre>bbonthec: <pre><p>On a Mac, use Pages which always autosave every single change you make. Or Textedit.</p></pre>N1cknamed: <pre><p>Google Docs works on any PC and autosaves anything you type to the cloud.</p></pre>thatPickles: <pre><p>also you could just launch up word and it asks you if you want to use the recovery file</p></pre>xsvbbcc: <pre><p>Do people think that a computer program is incapable of checking whether a ".asd" file appears in ia certain directory?</p></pre>kuso1234: <pre><p>For a second I thought you wrote "If World crashes or shuts down-". If there is a rule that computer engineers must try to backup their documentations even if skynet or aliens destroy their companies, my repsect for you guys have increases tenfold.</p></pre>Herbert_W: <pre><p>Better LPT: get into the habit of saving every time you complete a modification that you don't want to loose - be it a paragraph, fixing a typo that you just spotted, or just a nice turn of phrase. </p>
<p>There's a keyboard shortcut for saving - it varies depending on your OS - and if you save consistently you'll soon reach the point where it becomes a habit and your fingers should migrate towards it automatically whenever you complete a chunk of work. </p></pre>Role_Playing_Grump: <pre><p>It's 2017 - computers can do almost everything these days, why is there still no perfect "oopsie/FUCK" backup system for word documents that get closed on accident without initially saving? I haven't used MS Word since high school but once something was saved once it would periodically save every few seconds. That's great but is there so similar system for Wordpad and whatever else you use where nothing is saved? From this topic I guess there are ways but why is there official system in place? </p></pre>moose_shine: <pre><p>Did you type that comment on Wordpad?</p></pre>Jdj6: <pre><p>Upvote to save a college students life</p></pre>Raiderboy105: <pre><p>Read that as "If World crashes"</p></pre>carolathome: <pre><p>You can also sometimes find it in "recent documents."</p></pre>bmendonc: <pre><p>If you have an SSD, tell word to save every one minute...</p></pre>chevynigga123: <pre><p>Wow, I read this as "If the world crashes or shuts down..." </p></pre>deathpulse42: <pre><p>Take the time now to set all of your AutoRecover times to 1 minute.</p>
<p>File-->Options-->Save-->"Save AutoRecover information ever (x) minutes"</p>
<p>You're welcome.</p></pre>TheJeck: <pre><p>You have no idea how useful this is</p></pre>INDIGOVEGAS: <pre><p>LPT #2: Don't save this LPT in word because it might crash and then you're screwed.</p></pre>bklitzke: <pre><p>Or use google docs that automatically saves. </p></pre>PatacusX: <pre><p>Does this work for Excel too? Or is there a version of this for excel? I <em>really</em> wish I would have known this Friday afternoon when I lost the report I was working on.</p></pre>gobslobber: <pre><p>If Word crashes, download OpenOffice</p></pre>jamesbondq: <pre><p>Word by default has auto save set to every 10 minutes. This is the file that will open automatically when you start start word back up after it crashes. Go ahead and set it to 1 or 2 minutes. It's under word-> Options - >save. Also in this menu you can see the file path for the recovery file should you try to navigate to It yourself, or you can change it incase you would prefer to to be on a different drive. </p></pre>abhiminhas: <pre><p>Read it as 'if the world crashes' </p>
<p>Lol</p></pre>RabackOmama: <pre><p>What about excel?</p></pre>trumarc: <pre><p>What about Excel? My Excel files never save (prob my fault for trying to save to my desktop)</p></pre>Anonymoususer1747: <pre><p>Or use Docs. Lol.</p></pre>Lastshadow94: <pre><p>Or use Google Docs</p></pre>techneeqx: <pre><p>Does this work for excel? </p></pre>IM3dpenguin: <pre><p>If you are using a version of word newer than about 10 years old it automatically should recover the last open document as long as you haven't messed with the settings or aren't working with a program like deepfreeze.</p></pre>mygrammarrox: <pre><p>Is there a similar hack for excel?</p></pre>rm_11: <pre><p>What is this 2003? You should never have to do this, auto-recover works now.</p></pre>scandalousmambo: <pre><p>Or you could use software that doesn't crash. </p></pre>NigPee: <pre><p>libreoffice autosaves. I don't see why that isn't a thing with msoffice</p></pre>dropthebaum: <pre><p>I advocate for OpenOffice. It's free, it has really good document recovery in the event of a crash, and is much lighter weight than Word. It also handles images and image anchoring significantly better than Word, at least last I checked, haven't used Word in a long time...</p></pre>Elric501: <pre><p>If only this tip comes 3 days earlier </p></pre>marindo: <pre><p>Also make sure to turn on the auto save feature! </p></pre>schultzz88: <pre><p>What about excel? Excel crashes all the time on me and it's so frustrating losing hours of work. </p></pre>m1rado: <pre><p>Does this work for excel in any way?</p></pre>DomiinicToretto: <pre><p>I just screen shot the tip.</p></pre>thisisjustaburneracc: <pre><p>LPT: Just use Google Docs if you have an internet connection.</p></pre>trollfriend: <pre><p>Don't most operating system have auto saves and "versions" these days? I would think this would be more applicable to those with OS's pre 2009</p></pre>3rdageking: <pre><p>Commenting to save!</p></pre>icculus88: <pre><p>Would have been nice in college </p></pre>Notthatguyyoubanned: <pre><p>Lpt: set the Microsoft Office autosave interval to 1 minute. </p></pre>Sr_Laowai: <pre><p>I love Google docs.</p></pre>revpidgeon: <pre><p>Don't use word in the first place then you will never encounter this problem</p></pre>hennythenavigator: <pre><p>Just use Google docs!</p></pre>ayelmao58: <pre><p>Good luck searching in file explorer though.</p></pre>darexinfinity: <pre><p>Does this work if you magically pressed "Don't Save"?</p></pre>TheJeffreyLebowski: <pre><p>Even better LPT: use Google docs</p></pre>The_Real_Donglover: <pre><p>Doesn't word allow you to recover your documents? Everytime my pc shuts down I just restart word and it asks me if I want to recover an unsaved document.</p></pre>JCMusiq: <pre><p>Well damn, I could have used this hours ago.</p></pre>alligatorade-: <pre><p>I wish I had known this about 4 weeks ago!</p></pre>scoogsy: <pre><p>See now this is a real LPT!</p></pre>SCAND1UM: <pre><p>Or go straight to your C:\users<user>\appdata\local\microsoft\office\unsavedfiles and it should be there. In case searching your C:\ drive takes too long. </p></pre>YongLeiChu: <pre><p>Really?but,I'm mac </p></pre>timmybear74: <pre><p>Or just don't use word. I honestly don't understand why people keep paying for office when there are free alternatives that are browser based and work on any machine.</p></pre>
