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Word autosave isn't good enough...some stupid side bar pops up with a number of revisions of documents that I instincively ignore. You are mixing up Auto Save
by 300bps 13y ago
Word autosave isn't good enough...some stupid side bar pops up with a number of revisions of documents that I instincively ignore.
You are mixing up Auto Save with Auto Recover. In Word, your first line of defense is explicitly saving the document. Perhaps if clicking the button is too difficult you could hit Ctrl-S? That's what I do.
Failing explicitly saving your document, you could program Word to Auto Save your document every minute if you wanted to. This doesn't bring up (or even create) different revisions of the document. It literally is just as if you clicked the Save button (or hit Ctrl-S).
Failing the Auto Save - maybe you have it set to 10 minutes and you typed for 9 minutes when your computer crashed? You have Auto Recover. That's where Word automatically detects that Something Bad happened and shows you the last few times it made a copy of your Word environment for you (which includes your document).
So, three levels of protection that work pretty well for most people.
some stupid side bar pops up with a number of revisions of documents that I instincively ignore. Cancel, go away! I'm busy! Oh, now I've lost that work.
Perhaps you would be less busy if you weren't ignoring popups that were attempting to help you save your work.
My honest assessment is that you want your real work on Surface to be as easy and fun as your Subway Surfers on iPad.
- moconnor 13y agoI think you summed up exactly what's wrong with the Microsoft approach to documents here. In Pages, or Google Docs, it's just a document. It's always saved, always up to date, it just works. That's the future.
- 300bps 13y agoIn Pages, or Google Docs, it's just a document. It's always saved, always up to date, it just works I have a friend that uses Google Docs. He once sent me a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet. I got lost in the user interface at one point and ended up seeing the list of all of his documents. I clicked on one thinking it was the correct one and loaded what appeared to be on quick notice a journal of various medical problems he's been having. That's the future. You're right. The future is people using technology that they don't want to be bothered to learn and thereby having it do things that nobody (especially them) intended. I'm sorry you lost a document but you fell through 3 failsafe levels and did it to yourself. Pretending things like that don't happen to Google Docs is ridiculous and shows your true bias.
- WayneDB 13y ago"The future" also has half the power, speed and features too. Also, it obviously doesn't "just work" for you because you couldn't even use Google Docs in your place of business.
- rahoulb 13y agoThat's pretty much why I avoid office. Just save, don't interrupt me, or reqire me to wet things up, just get out of my way. There's no reason it can't be "easy and fun" like on an ipad apart from years of "this is how it's always been".
- WayneDB 13y agoThere's no reason you can't use non-Office programs on a Surface either. Unfortunately for people who don't like Office - there'r no good alternatives if you want to conduct business in the environment where Office is most widely used.