WOOF WOOF ZING!

Wow, it could be the power button for a power strip, which is quite easy for anyone to hit, is not beveled and instantly turns off all devices connected to said strip without asking you if you want to. My username is, and always will be, correct.

YDI for not saving, retard.

Sucks for you. I save it every-so often to prevent that from happening.

As a recent college graduate who wrote many, many papers over the past 4.5 years, while I do feel some sympathy toward your situation, this is still a YDI. I mean as it is, Word 2003 does (or is at least supposed to) autosave your paper every like 10 or 20 minutes or something, so it should be recoverable...but even if it doesn't, if you're writing a very large paper, you should be saving every few pages or so, just in case. You poor bastard, but in the end, it's your own fault.

Auto-save. Learn to love it.

That's why you save your work after every sentence or two you type. It's become a reflex for me. It sucks, but shit happens.

Why would anyone design a computer to shut down at a touch? Usually you have to hold them down for 5-10 seconds don't you? To keep exactly that from happening? I'd say anyone who designs that kind of power button should probably not be working with computers... If its a switch then maybe... but if computers even still have those they're usually hidden in the back aren't they?

sucks so much! But you should save it every few sentences or so.

Always ALWAYS save as soon as you start the word project- I think every student has suffered the misfortune of losing a paper that was not saved.