Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Need autosave macro for Winword Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 20:27:48 GMT References: <49595@ut-emx.uucp> <1991May30.003620.23077@amd.com> <1991May30.162127.17173@unixg.ubc.ca> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 33 victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Victor Menayang) writes: >I need an autosave macro for Word for Windows. I've seen the replies folks have made to this original posting. They don't solve the problem in a way I like. I used to use Word for DOS 5 and it used a very different techinque. It did saves to a temporary scratch file every so many (specified) minutes. When you quit your session, the file is removed. If your system crashes and you leave Word other than the standard way, the file still exists. When you start Word up again, it asks if you want to recover the autosave file. This is similar to the way vi works in Unix. The advantage over these other techniques is that your original file only gets updates when you want it. I often make major reformatting changes and sometimes don't like the result. I then restore my saved file to throw the changes away. With WfW's standard autosave, you can't do this unless you ask to be prompted. Being prompted is annoying. What I want is Word 5's autosave feature for WfW. I sent MS a letter asking for it, but who knows if anything will be done. There are still many ways in which Word 5 is superior to WfW. I hope the next version of WfW will add most of these features. Later, Marshall -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Program 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future