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Word 2011 document changed to all asterisks!
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<blockquote data-quote="cbr" data-source="post: 1314345" data-attributes="member: 219537"><p><strong>asterisks devastation</strong></p><p></p><p>The asterisks attacked my novel, sixty single spaced pages irretrievably gone in mere moments. Months worth of work lost. Having never seen this before, I did not intervene quickly enough to stop Auto Save making the asterisks permanent (the night before a critical deadline--classic). Instead I was online, looking for answers. Hours of subsequent research yielded no clues, and the Genius Bar people had never even heard of this. Finally an online consultant at 'Just Answer' directed me here. I save obsessively, but apparently must now look beyond manual actions, computer settings, and Time Machine in doing so. It's virtually impossible to find any mention of this bug, which people should be made aware of even if there isn't yet a solution--at least then they can take preventative measures. Just completely inexcusable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cbr, post: 1314345, member: 219537"] [b]asterisks devastation[/b] The asterisks attacked my novel, sixty single spaced pages irretrievably gone in mere moments. Months worth of work lost. Having never seen this before, I did not intervene quickly enough to stop Auto Save making the asterisks permanent (the night before a critical deadline--classic). Instead I was online, looking for answers. Hours of subsequent research yielded no clues, and the Genius Bar people had never even heard of this. Finally an online consultant at 'Just Answer' directed me here. I save obsessively, but apparently must now look beyond manual actions, computer settings, and Time Machine in doing so. It's virtually impossible to find any mention of this bug, which people should be made aware of even if there isn't yet a solution--at least then they can take preventative measures. Just completely inexcusable. [/QUOTE]
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