Hello am working on a company that use Microsoft office 2007, very often when people start making a word document they forgive to give it a name and save it, and sometimes they close the word without saving, and they lose the document. Is there any way for Microsoft word to automatic saves a new document even if the document wasn’t give a name to it?
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See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm and http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. Note that in Word 2010 and above, there is an option to keep a copy of a document even if it was not explicitly saved. This "unsaved version" is preserved for only a short time (about 48 hours, I believe).
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If you turn on autorecover at the first save interval it will prompt for a file name. You just have to break out the 'butter sock' and convince the users to ENTER a F* N* (fooled you! File Name). But a "real autosave" utility is still better than autorecover.
For high value documents, like a Thesis, I prefer one of the "true autosave" utilities like graham M.'s tool. There are other similar ones. The thing I like about them is that they use the "save as" feature to create a historic "string" of backup files. That way when you eventually recognize you have file corruption, oops!, you can go back through the string to find the first uncorrupted one, minimizing lost data.
Of course, you have to periodically "prune" the string of backups, but it is worth the time.
.For high value documents, like a Thesis, I prefer one of the "true autosave" utilities like graham M.'s tool. There are other similar ones. The thing I like about them is that they use the "save as" feature to create a historic "string" of backup files. That way when you eventually recognize you have file corruption, oops!, you can go back through the string to find the first uncorrupted one, minimizing lost data.
Of course, you have to periodically "prune" the string of backups, but it is worth the time.
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