Excel 2000 used to have an autosave function, which was slightly annoying
since it always prodded you to accept the save, but it was a good function.
Office 2003 eliminated that and confused the issue with the auto recovery
function, and yes, you were cautioned that it did not act as "save". But why
did MS have to eliminate a good function. Last night I did some work on an
Excel workbook, got distracted, went to bed without saving the changes.
Overnight MS updated my computer with some security changes and re-started it
which wiped out the work I did. And another thing, why in the world would MS
re-start my computer without my permission? Wouldn't it be obvious to the MS
staff that programs that are active could be affected? Come, MS, think!

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Hi Jjb,

Excel 2000 used to have an autosave function, which was slightly annoying
since it always prodded you to accept the save, but it was a good function.
Office 2003 eliminated that and confused the issue with the auto recovery
function, and yes, you were cautioned that it did not act as "save". But why
did MS have to eliminate a good function. Last night I did some work on an
Excel workbook, got distracted, went to bed without saving the changes.
Overnight MS updated my computer with some security changes and re-started it
which wiped out the work I did.


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