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[Iniyila]

actually i should say that the freezing problem completely exist in 2007 and 2010 versions, so if the 2010 is the best of Word series it is not the best of editors which you can use. the auto saving feature is completely unreliable, it sometimes doesn't save for 10 minutes when you have set it to save every 1 minute. go for openoffice and feel the differences, more reliable and less freezing. open office is simple which is one of it's advantages, it doesn't have tabbed gui but you can access everything you need very easily, and it's free so you will not loose any money for trying it. anyway i think the nest battle would be against Google Docs and Open Office and microsoft office will be left alone.

[sheepdog]

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CTRL-S should be your friend... best friend...I hit it instinctively after half a page or so of writing...

Oh ABSOLUTLY!!!! I hit save every few sentences. Sometimes when I've made a fairly long post here I will highlight/copy and save it because there have been quite a few times when posts just sit and don't go threw and I hate loosing anything I've taken the time to type up. So it's not just word that screws up.

[Iniyila]

sheepdog, on 15 December 2010 - 04:01 AM, said:

Oh ABSOLUTLY!!!! I hit save every few sentences. Sometimes when I've made a fairly long post here I will highlight/copy and save it because there have been quite a few times when posts just sit and don't go threw and I hate loosing anything I've taken the time to type up. So it's not just word that screws up.

i know it's very easy to hit ctrl+s but word has an option for autosaving which means you shouldn't be worried about not hitting the ctrl+s (if you set it to save every minute or less) but this option wasn't reliable on 2007 and isn't reliable in 2010 too. i don't know how hard it should be to make this option work correctly but if it is needed to save your work manually why they have put such an option. and about typing in a forum i think browsers should implement an option for recovering lost data duo to connection drop or software crashing so you don't have to select and ctrl+C it .

[k_nitin_r]

Microsoft Word is a pretty good word processor, but Microsoft Word 2007 in particular is very buggy. I would consider switching to other alternatives but OpenOffice is too buggy for my needs and I have not had a chance to try Lotus' offerings yet. Microsoft Office 2010 is out there and I ought to get an upgrade, but I am hoping to get the discount that they offer when buying the software with a new PC. Sure, it is not cheap but it costs less than buying the software off the store shelves. Microsoft Word's auto-save did help me recover data on numerous occasions and Microsoft Word 2003 was just amazing, with lots of people out there still using it in 2010.

My next word processor would probably be Microsoft Word 2010 because Microsoft has done a lot to get its act together after Windows Vista so I'm sure Office 2010 would have had the same level of commitment as Windows 7 did in getting bugs squished under the feet of the developers. Until then, I'll have to live with the bugs that occasionally pop up in Word 2007.

PS: Did you know - Word 2007 can also open OpenOffice documents.

[Illustrious]

I never really had any major problems with Microsoft Word except for the time when I lost 3 pages of work. I guess it was my fault though. I was working on a report and left the computer unattended. I never saved the report so when I left the computer, the Windows Update Restart Window popped up and I was not there to delay the restart. When I got back to the computer, my computer was at the Welcome Screen. I learned my lesson and started to save regularly.

The other other real problem that I have with Microsoft Word is that the 2007+ versions have wierd formatting issues and I haven't taken the time to learn it. For example, when I set the spacing to 1.0, my header spaces the lines out. This is one of the reasons why I prefer to use Microsoft Word 2003 and below. Other than that, I really think Microsoft Word is a useful program.

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CTRL-S should be your friend... best friend...I hit it instinctively after half a page or so of writing...

I agree completely. I abuse this button soo much and I frequently make multiple copies of my work to prevent losing them.

[xpress]

I don't hate Microsoft word that much. But I didn't understand the incompatibilities between different versions of word documents. Once I faced a really embarrassing situation when i took an important document to somewhere else, where a different version(probably 2003) installed. And when i opened my document it showed me modern art...

[filmdesire]

Woah woah woah, so much MS Word dislike.

Microsoft Word is by far one of the best word processing applications I've used. And I've only used three, MS Works, Open Office, and Word. Well actually 4 if you include Google Docs.

I can only recommend that you look up on how to change the autosave settings in word. As for freezing up, all operating systems I've used have had problems with freezing up. It's inevitable. Even linux systems which people say is not prone to freezing, froze on me the other day while I was at university.

Actually the best option would be to change your habit so you save every three paragraphs of text. At least every page. Be paranoid, when you're thinking, just hit that shortcut CTRL + S - it's literally painless...