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I'd say if your friend took the time to set up autorecover, he should be OK, if not it's probably toast. &nbsp;I tested it and created a document, didn't save it and the did a Force Quit on Word and was NOT able to get the document back. However, after setting up autoprotect I did the same thing and when I started Word again, it went immediately to that document.
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I'd say if your friend took the time to set up autorecover, he should be OK, if not it's probably toast.  I tested it and created a document, didn't save it and the did a Force Quit on Word and was NOT able to get the document back. However, after setting up autoprotect I did the same thing and when I started Word again, it went immediately to that document.

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Is autoprotect on by default? Is there anyway to check if it's on or not? Is force quit the only option either way and you get what you get?
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Is autoprotect on by default? Is there anyway to check if it's on or not? Is force quit the only option either way and you get what you get?

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When the user restarted Word, his document recovered itself. Apparently autoprotect IS on by default. I know this user did not set it up.
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When the user restarted Word, his document recovered itself. Apparently autoprotect IS on by default. I know this user did not set it up.

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Helping a friend who has Office 2008 Academic. He was working on a very lengthy assignment in Word. When he went to save, the program froze with just the &quot;wait&quot; cursor spinning away. It is still in that condition now. He can open other programs but Word is unresponsive.<br />
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Is his document auto-saved? How can I prove it before he reboots the machine to un-freeze the program?
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Helping a friend who has Office 2008 Academic. He was working on a very lengthy assignment in Word. When he went to save, the program froze with just the "wait" cursor spinning away. It is still in that condition now. He can open other programs but Word is unresponsive.

Is his document auto-saved? How can I prove it before he reboots the machine to un-freeze the program?

Office 2008 for Mac, frozen, is my document auto saved?

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