A calamitous business. Acres of work lost. Premature baldness. Weeping.



When I try to save, a save as box appears (with name of existing file in box). Clicking save again from there just reproduces the save as box.

I tried saving as a new filename, and this it appeared to happily accept. To be on the safe side, I copied the entire document into a blank document and saved that as a new file. I closed Word. It asked me if I wanted to keep the contents of the clipboard. Like a fool, I said no. (I had saved it as two separate files, after all.)

When it came to loading up those files again, they were nowhere to be found. The automatic shortcuts to those files in Recent Documents and the taskbar confirmed they were missing.

An entire day's work.

After that, save worked fine for a couple of days. Now it has started doing it again.

The only way I can think of not to lose all my work is to copy into a txt file. Then after Word has screwed everything up, I can use the text file in file compare to log the edits and try to unscrew everything.

Still time consuming.

Somebody please help.