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[AbstracT]

I stayed up all night yesterday to finish up my 10 page paper for philosophy. My microsoft word normally auto save my work after a couple of minutes..So when I was on my 5th page it was saved but it never saved when I reached my 10th page. So after I put my finishing touches my paper and was about to save it the program froze. I mean I couldn't move the cursor I couldn't do anything..I wasn't running any extra programs so it wasn't that prob...I stared at my screen for a whole hour hoping it will just come back to normal and it didn't...I had to type up the rest of the 5 pages AGAIN!

[Señor Maniac]

I know that had to be a bad thing to happen. Man I also hate that program most of the time. Grr. My stupid computer class has us working in that and we are also working in yet another crappy program which is access. Both of those programs should have never been made. I really think that they are a burden.

[RGPHNX]

Hey all,
Just another great program brought to you by M$ aka. Microbloat.
Win Word is a huge resource hog & will often crash your puter... even with lots of RAM etc. Try open source programs that will convert your documents to MS Word format for saving. Then.. once you have your content safely saved to disk.. you can open up MS Word to do the final page layout etc.
Look at sourceforge.net for MS Word replacement programs. "Open Office" has a good word processor that saves in MS Word format.
Hope this helps,
RGPHNX
PS- my signature says it all re: MS

[quiksilver]

I have never had a problem with it. At school I also have to work with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access.

[Johnny]

Happens all the time to me during big graphics projects in C4D, or big posts on the net. That still sucks bigtime though.

[hulunes]

ummm,there are nothing problem happned when i use microsoft Word or other office software like Excel or powerpoint.may be you should reinstall again or fix on it.usually this kind of office software work well.good luck...

[no9t9]

i don't know why you people always have problem with MS stuff. I have NEVER had MS Word crash on me and I am probably a power user of all MS applications (I do VB scripting and macros). And another thing, don't think open office and linux NEVER crashes... cause it DOES.

Just like MAC's are advertised as the most friendly computer, it is actually not as easy to use as Windows. I'll admit, most of my Mac experience is with the outdated OS9 but even then they were saying OS9 doesn't crash. I hate to say it but it crashed ALL the time. Probably 3 times more likely to crash than Win2k. There is no contest between OS9 and XP though.

[alperuzi]

CTRL-S should be your friend... best friend...

I hit it instinctively after half a page or so of writing...

[Dragonfly]

Sorry to hear your hard work go in vain in a minute. If that makes you hate the word MS and MS word you could be right.. but doesn't the problem lies in your system too? I have not encounter such situation, never in the past so far and I wonder. In fact MS office 2000 and above won't behave strangely that way. If you are using lower versions it could happen. So, I think it has to do with your system configuration as well. Anyways your bad experience makes me feel sorry for you...