*headdesk*

[schmerica]

IMPORTANT NOTE TO SELF:

WordPad has an undo button. You already knew this.

What you did not notice until, say, about two minutes ago is that it HAS NO REDO BUTTON. So when you just undid your entire story? It's now gone forever, loser.

I think this is the kind of stupidity that once you do it once, you're pretty much not going to do it again, though. And at least it was only a couple hundred words.

Sigh. *starts from scratch*

Comments

[medie]

Wordpad? You can undo the undo. or at least, it always worked for me.

But *HUGGLES*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Um, no. If you keep pressing undo you end up at the blank empty page, and the undo command greys out.

[medie]

*blink* really? I must be spacing then. Which, y'know, does happen on occasion.

so in that case *offers you beer and sympathetic hugs*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks.

*pokes at slow slow reconstruction*

Open Office Free?

[innogen.livejournal.com]

There's a free word processor download off ff.net. It's not the only place...I think it's called Open Office. I just downloaded a copy, so I don't know how well it works. It *has* to better than Wordpad... sorry it won't help you with your current frustration.

Innogen

Re: Open Office Free?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like wordpad and notepad when I'm not doing something stupid like tonight. I use word or wordperfect for writing papers and stuff for school, but usually for fiction writing I really need the other ones. Text files, usually.

Word Processing Tip

[lystykds.livejournal.com]

Oh have had this kind of thing happento me...

But, here's the most important thing to do in any word processor...

When you start a document...SAVE IT before adding more than one line to it...and use the save function frequently while using a document. Most word processors have a function built in that will at least save what you have requested it to save. Some even have a function built in where once you start editing a document that you have already 'saved'; i.e., given a working name...will do automatic 'save' function for you. Another trick is once you have the document well in hand...or completed...save it with a back up copy on a floppy or cdROM.

MS Word does this for 2003 and later.

Good Luck

Lys