Help! Word Doc Problems

[Jet Gorgon]

Hi, All.

A client sent me a word doc to edit. I made all my changes, dutifully saving every five minutes. I noticed the doc was linked to a website that kept popping up everytime I clicked on a word term. CdnVic told me how to shut that off. But, when I finished the job, made a backup copy and closed and reopened the file, my editing work had vanished. Checked the doc properties and discovered it is password protected, so none of my changes were implemented. Groan. Six hours of work. What bothers me is that the doc saved my changes as I had it open. Any possibility I can retrieve my edited doc?

Thanks for any help,

Jet

[PhilHarries]

Try saving it first under a new filename. That usually gets around the pw protection.

[Jet Gorgon]

Try saving it first under a new filename. That usually gets around the pw protection.

Thanks, Phil. I did that before I closed the file but when I reopened both docs, my changes were all gone.

[PhilHarries]

Oh well that's this help desk well and truly buggered.

Unless, and this is a real crude try, highlight the entire document and copy and paste into a new blank file.

I'm afraid my Word skills are self taught by trial and error.

I am definately one of the computerosaurus species.

[donna]

thats what i would do. cut and paste into a new doc.

[Guest Reimar]

thats what i would do. cut and paste into a new doc.

Not C"cut" and "paste", use "copy" and Paste" into a new document to keep the original document. If you "cut", the original part you assign to cutting is gone!

[PeaceBlondie]

Also, test your editing after the first sentence. Try copying and pasting into a newly titled document on your own PC. Then make a change to a sentence, save it, and exit. Then go back on your PC to see if the change was saved and can be re-edited.

[sutnyod]

Have you tried the "track changes" tab?

[Jet Gorgon]

Thanks, everyone.

I was using the track changes functions and saving the file as I went along. Since it saved all the track changes with the balloons, etc, I figured all was fine. Then saved a "just in case" file, closed out and reopened both and "bing", all changes and evidence thereof had vanished in both f** files. So, I have nothing to copy and save.

Yikes.

[guardian]

I guess you might have already done this, but just in case.

On clicking "File" from the drop menu, you should have a history of about 5 last opened files. If you have not yet opened many files after your problem, why not try and see if there's 2 file of the same name showing in this "history" and open and see if you can find your saved file. I guess it should have been saved to another file in your default "save as" folder since you did not get any error message when you saved every 5 minutes. HTH

[A_Traveller]

Hi

Question not answers, forgive me:-

1. Was document produced in Word {not Open Office etc. in Word mode?}

2. What conditions are password protected?

3. Are you using auto save or quick save?

Regards

[Jet Gorgon]

Hi

Question not answers, forgive me:-

1. Was document produced in Word {not Open Office etc. in Word mode?}

2. What conditions are password protected?

3. Are you using auto save or quick save?

Regards

Hi, Traveller.

OK, somehow, the gods returned my doc with changes. But, now I am copying and pasting to a new doc and the dam hyperlinks are still there.

BTW, I always click the save button meself.

Whole prev doc was created in a word blank doc; password protection is under properties.

[sutnyod]

Hi,

just for next time: when working on a document that was sent to you by email it is saved in your "Local Settings" temp folder. By clicking "save" the changes will not be written to this location, because that would destroy the original document sent to you. I don't know whether the changes are written anywhere (that would solve your present problem), but next time, when you work on such a doc, you must "save AS" first and give it a new location.