No one is safe from a power outage or computer crash, so you need to take every precaution to save your data when working on important documents. This can be helped by enabling and configuring your ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

Once you know what you are doing, recovering an unsaved Word document is as easy as pie. Once you know what you are doing, recovering an unsaved Word document is as easy as pie. I almost had a very ...

The sanity-saving Manage Presentation capability is available on all of the current Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I wrote about this a couple of years ago (see “How ...

It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

The Microsoft WordPad application allows you to create, edit, view, and print simple text documents. The WordPad application, accessible from the Accessories menu on the Start menu, allows for basic ...

For some Microsoft 365 app users, the Normal.dotm error message “Word cannot save or create this file” may appear when you are trying to exit a Word file and want ...