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by hulitu 1690 days ago
My best practices with MS Word are: 1. Disable fast saves. 2. Disable auto save. 3. Save often and always with a different name (1, 2, 3 etc). 4. After some hours of work, save, close word and open it again. Point 1 and 2 are related to some bugs when word will crash during save and destroy your file. Point 4 is related to a bug in MS Word when, for every element in your file (text, graphics) word will create a temporary file until it fills your hard drive. I do not recommend saving to any cloud storage (connection broken, bye bye file).