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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Leaving Snow Leopard (was Re: What's the Verdict on FileVault?)
Date: 3 Mar 2017 15:02:16 GMT
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 3/2/2017 6:01 AM, Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> My wife recently recently lost several hours of work because she didn't realize
>> that MS Office, alone of every app on her computer, did not autosave.
>> 
>> One more reason for her to hate Microsoft Office.
> 
> Wait, are you serious Mac Offdice doesn't autosave? I didn't know this 
> too. :(

Office 2011 and later apparently does; but I'm not sure about older
versions:

<https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Automatically-save-and-recover-files-6C6425B1-6559-4BBF-8F80-4F038402FF02>

Maybe she was using an older version. Also I'm not sure if there may be
bugs in Microsoft's implementation that might cause it to fail in Office.

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