This probably is already known to most, but Word can be set up to save a backup copy at whatever time interval you want, and it also has a pretty good automatic recovery feature as well. I think the default for the backup copies is "off", so be sure to turn it on on your copy of Word. - Don
Daniel Johnson wrote: Way back in 1981, a little group of MIT guys formed Mark of the Unicorn and went on to write a word processor, FinalWord, that had one wonderful feature: It maintained a swap file, a text database that was created and maintained invisibly to the user, writing the current document to floppy every 1K bytes or whenever the keyboard was inactive for M seconds (M user-definable). If the power went out, as it very often did in the first 8 years I was a computer user, the doc was saved; worst case scenario, the swap file was corrupted, in which case you ran the recovery program to rebuild it. I can't tell you how many hours of re-writing this saved me back then, and I still use this little dos program for text creation because of this safety feature. Big programs need to have such disaster-recovery features built in as well, and this little note about Africa and unreliable power reminded me of this fact. Dan Johnson md
