If you don't have a backup copy then redoing all of your tables will
be the incentive to create backups in future.
Make sure you do the following:
1 in the menus choose Word:Preferences:Save
2 Tick 'Always create backup copy'
3 Tick 'Save auto recovery every xx min" and set the time to 5 minutes
4 Train yourself to type Command-s at frequent intervals while
working on any M$ Word document.
5 At the end of each half-day save a copy of the document with the
date and time as part of its name. Preferably save on some medium
other than your normal hard disk, so that when your hard disk crashes
or a head falls off you will only have to redo half a day's in the
worst case. Hopefully the crash occurs very soon after you have
saved, on another medium, your dated and timed copy.
I have done the above routine ever since, in the 1980s, an
acquaintance experienced a head failure on a hard disk (an external
Apple Hard Disk with a capacity of all of 40MB) on which she lost
most of a book she had been writing during the previous year on her
Mac Plus. I was the one who finally gave her the bad news after she
asked me to come and help; it wasn't a joyous occasion.
On 26/01/2010, at 9:23 PM, Peter Bull wrote:
I have just opened a book I have been revising in Word. A message
came up saying there was some corruption but it managed to open it.
However, the 135 pages has blown out to 465 because Word has lost
all the tables so the info in the tables has been put one line
under another and double spaced.
Is there some way I could go revert to the last saved version? If
so, it would save me a huge amount of work of course. And no, I
don't have a backup copy.
iMac, OS 10.5.8. Word X for Mac.
Peter Bull
pb...@bbnet.com.au
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