I have had occasion and only a couple of times where by some mystical meansdocuments which were being worked on and had in most cases, been saved got lost. It is disconserting when it is your daily diary for the month but in Lisa's case, an assignment, well I would think she is rather shattered by this whole thing. I did not know that you could tell the bn not to bug you to save things in keyword format. I don't use the bn for really important things like writing papers but Make the investment if you can find the little pcmcia disk drive they used to offer. It will at least give you something with which to back things up. Now I have heard that machine is no longer made but I do not know. Anyway I don't use mine that often because bot hthe laptop and bn have pcmcia slots so I can use flash cards. But when I have had to use the disk drive in the case of being at csun and I had asked for the material to be presented on disk I found it really wonderful and too, last summer we used that drive with the laptop because the one which fit in the ultra bay of my laptop didn't work. Anyway, I am really sorry you lost your paper notes Oh man! I wish I could help you with this but I hav, as said before, had identical experiences and am just as stumped as you are. Mary Ellen Earls
