Hitting SAVE opens a window to save the AutoRecover version as a new file. The problem is Word gives you some pretty darn confusing options for what to do with the AutoRecover file and it can be pretty catastrophic. Clicking the AutoRecover version, you see your more recent changes and you breathe a sigh of relief. In the left hand pane, it shows you your original document you saved two days ago and then the AutoRecover version from 5 minutes before your laptop died. Not to fear, because because Word has an nifty AutoRecover feature that allows you see your changes since you last saved. Apparently I don’t hit save as often as I thought.) (This just happened to where I lost about 2 days of work from a laptop dying. Let’s say you’ve been working on a word document and your laptop dies, computer auto restarts or computer somehow unexpectedly shuts down before you save your document before you saved. This is a tip I hope few have to use, but found it incredibly useful when you make a mistake with not saving and botching the AutoRecover bailout option.
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