So, I am a field logger for a television show which means I have to use the time code option in microsoft word every few seconds so that i have an accurate log of when every action and bit if dialogue happened.

I was able to find out how to insert the current time by using shift + command + t and it will enter a unique and accurate time stamp.

So, I'll spend 13 hours logging an entire day's work, saving periodically and end up with an accurate log for the editors to use later.

but for some f'ing reason Word will randomly change ALL of the times to the same time! The entire page will be just fine when I save... but sometimes randomly I will come back to the document and it will have changed all of the unique timestamps to ONE time! It will just decide that i wanted 3,000 times to all read 14:02:02 throughout the entire document!

Sometimes I will have saved and closed the document and when I reopen it, the time codes will have all changed to one time. Sometimes it will even do it without closing the document. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for this and it's completely screwing me over.

so instead of...

12:59:03 | JG: Hello!
12:59:15 | JG: Today we are dealing with...
13:01:04 | B: Tell me how that made you feel?
13:02:08 | JG: Well, gee golly.
13:04:04 | B: What I think...

will turn into...

21:23:20 | JG: Hello!
21:23:20 | JG: Today we are dealing with...
21:23:20 | B: Tell me how that made you feel?
21:23:20 | JG: Well, gee golly.
21:23:20 | B: What I think...


for 75 pages! As far as I can tell there's no UNDO function, every single saved copy (backup files) will all read the same! Even digging deep into the auto saves, they will have all changed to this as well.

I've never had this problem on any other computer... why is this happening? it's driving me to the end of my rope and I can't even find any searches to figure out why it's happening and how to fix it.

It's basically going to get me fired because my logs have become useless.

Please help me :{