oof!!!!

[Ezteq]

the word that springs instantly to my lips is BUGGERATION!!

just been merrily typing away on my english assignment, wracking my little brain for suitable phrases and thumbing through my beloved thesaurus and i hit the wrong key and *poof* tis gone, all of it.

every
last
sodding
arsing
word!!

dont suppose there is anyway to reclaim my little work of genius is there? i am able to do basic msword things and can sacrifice a chicken if voodoo is needed (do frozen breasts count?)

what?? its cold and i have no brassierres!!

heeeeeeelp!! is there some secret compartment in the pc where it is likely to be pleeeeeeeeeeease?

ta

 

[Nate]

sacrifice the guinea pigs to the overlord of microsoft and he will magically return your work!

 

[Ezteq]

bill gates?

i've told him once im not telling him again, he can take my life but he'll nevah take mah pookie!!!!

 

[Dukat]

Ctrl+Z to undo!!!

Failing that *if* its a recent version of word, restarting can *sometimes* restore the work for you to save it.

However if restarting word is imo a last resort as it might clear some sort of cache or whatever which would end up with you losing the work

what version of word is it?

was the file saved at all before you lost it? (im guessing not but never hurt to ask)

do you know which key you pressed to make it disappear?

 

[tris-]

use autosave in future

 

[megadave]

yeah my version of word saves every 15minutes or something to some dusty corner of my pc

 

[Ezteq]

ill be doing that tbh lol ty for tip i didnt know it had auto save

 

[tris-]

btw if you click on file and go to the bottom it lists recent documents. yours might be in there.

 

[swords]

I lost 3,000 words of a report once due to some memory problem :/ thankfully I had a backup the day before

 

[Hollomere]

I can bet that you hit CTRL-A (select all) instead of SHIFT-A for a capital and then carried on typing. THe only way out of that is to do CTRL-Z (undo) straightaway or otherwise its a one-way trip to Retype City.


I know how you feel cos I've done it before and its waaaaaaaay annoying

 

[Lamp]

You should still be able to reclaim it from the temp directory - autosave...oh you didn't have autosave...

 

[Bahumat]

good job Ezteq only types 1 word per hour...

 

[MaCaBr3]

ctrl-z?