[Please see #53] And, good luck finishing your paper :]

Lesson learnt. Good luck with the rewrite, hope it's not fatal. X

hey 99. I'm pretty sure your running MICROSOFT ON THAT DELL. All dell did was make the outer shell or sub contracted it. Microsoft is the OS, not the outer computer. You failed twice. Alt-F4 from your life as someone said previously. I can send you some rope or weights if you need them. If you're going to lie about something, at least have the decency to know what your lying about.

that truely sucks, i save every few sentences.. you will now to

I just love how everyone here thinks that their computer/word processor is the same computer/word processor that everyone else in the world uses. It's quite amusing. *ahem 121, 122, and the other* FYI: not everyone uses the same computer as you and not everyone uses microsoft word. I know that must be a shocker. I know the program I use doesn't autosave. And, like numerous other people have said - the OP probably meant the dog stepped on the switch to her power strip, which would instantly shut off the computer. Op - that really, really sucks. I did something similar once. Sometimes you just have to learn things the hard way. Hopefully you remember a lot of what you wrote.

Write a post-it note to yourself and stick it on your computer... "SAVE YOUR WORK!" I hope you have time to re-write the paper and submit it.

what makes the OP stupid by not saving? Smartasses. Sorry to hear it, it's happened to me before and the autosave didn't recover much. Even more annoying is when you finish something, spend hours correcting and editing then lose the work because of a power cut etc and then can't remember what you had and hadn't done and have to start over again!

so unrealistic. come on.

WHO THE **** CARESSSSSSS

YDI - every one knows by now to save, at least once every 15 minutes, minimum. I once had a problem when I started college with a bad box of floppies. I had lost work from a computer dying before, so i decided to save to the floppy first. Took me three times to realize that the reason my computer immediately shut down, erasing my work, was due to a problem with the floppy I was trying to save the work too