Hi,

well, I keep trying, over the years - with fainting hope.

Maybe there is one person at Microsoft with a heart for people like us who are working with many files at a time? Hi there?

Maybe not.

But does anyone of you, the readers of this thread, know if Microsoft Office 2016 or Office 365 offers that ancient and forgotten function of restoring each and every file you have been working on in the last session?

For me, this really would be a reason to get a copy of a new version of Word!!! (Listen up, there at Microsoft.)

I would like to quote Elli, who started this thread, to strengthen his/her and our point:

"In browsers such as Firefox or Chrome there are extensions that allow you to save a session state, close all windows at once, and restore them at a later time. This is useful if you open many windows, need to restart your computer and get back to working on them later.

I cannot find such functionality in Word.

Often I have 10-15 documents open, and then need to restart my computer for one reason or another (e.g., installing a new program or updating virus definition). I then have to manually close all word documents one by one, restart, and then remember what I had open and open them one by one.

Word will do this for you if your computer crashes, but why can't this be done on the initiative of the user without a crash (or can it)?"