Word is not saving changes to documents

Which version of Word are you running, and which operating system? 

In Word for Windows, at least, it is normal for each e-mail attachment to open as read only, which means that you will have to save it under a new name. Press F12 (FN+F12 on some keyboards) to display the Save As dialog box.

Hi,

I am having real trouble saving documents received by e mail and also with saving changes to documents. Please provide a solution.

Jo Watson

Hey,

Thank you, your post gave me a lot to think about, and so far as I am aware when I initially begun adding changes on the Monday I did leave the file open over night until the Tuesday however it was closed and the PC was switched off on the Tuesday evening (as when I leave the PC on it has a blinking light that is annoying to sleep whilst on). Otherwise, I would find the situation your describing as the same as if would give reason to why the 2 files were both registering the last save date as that monday (despite one of them not even existing until thursday)

I don't know whether this has any relevence but on the Thursday day I did a few hours of work on the morning and left the session open whilst I went to visit friends, and then returned a few hours later in which the PC would've been in hibernation mode before continuing the work.

I've also seen a couple of people mention the installation of OneDrive having an effect but I don't actually use it, or haven't so on my more recent PC.

I have discussed what happened with one of my friends (a computer scientist) and my dad (who was familiar with PCs and Applications) but he was quite confused. Naturally it would be easier to assume I hadn't saved it properly or it had been deleted but my partner was not there all week and when it comes to important hand-ins I'm usually very careful (I know, most will say the same).

Your response is the best I've seen but unfortunately  on the Wednesday (after I had saved and shut down on the Tuesday) I opened my files and the changes I had made tuesday were there, and I proceeded to save and shut down that wednesday and thursday night (again the light is irritating when trying to sleep). It was only after I saved the final draft of the assignment and renamed the save that this happened.

I hope some of this is useful to someone, as I said I've accepted the document is gone and finished my assignment now, I've just never had such an unusual occurrance with word before.

Thank you for your response

I did use copy and paste, and I have done recovery scans for deleted file with nothing there, there are the files ‘example’ and ‘examplefinal’, however one both the USB and the PC the last save was on the monday, which cant have been the case because I made changes to the ‘example’ file on the tuesday-thursday, to which I would close the document on a night (i.e. tuesday) and open it to find my changes there the next day (i.e. the wednesday), but now when i look at the file on the PC and USB it says the file has not been changed since that monday. Also, the ‘examplefinal’ document did not exist prior to the thursday, I only saved as the file to a different name once the work on it was complete, so how is it when I open it the document is the one I opened and began savihg on the monday? I have opened that document every day and worked on it, I have done the auto recovery and used programs to check I have not deleted it or clicked on another file during the saving process so ot saves as a different name, but there is no sign of the changes i made or that i even opened thefile after monday.