Perform your SAVE with your document opened and then do a SAVE AS. USING SAVE AS to a DIFFERENT MEDIA (floppy, zip or CD Write):

Using opened document or open up a document

~~ Move POINTER to File and CLICK ~~ Move POINTER to SAVE AS and CLICK

Again, you will be presented with SAVE AS Box

~~ Insert into your computer media you are saving to: Floppy, Zip, or CD Write ~~ The Save in: section should have last folder name that you saved a document to. In this case you want to save to your (A:), (B:), (D:), (E:), (F:), (you choose letter on your computer that corresponds to media type; on my computer, a floppy is my (A:) drive.).

To locate and select proper drive for media you want to save to:

~~ CLICK small black down arrow next to folder name in Save in: ~~ CLICK until you find drive you want to save to.

You can also change name and format of document you are saving by repeating steps explained in SAVE AS BOX above.

Press RETURN/ENTER or CLICK SAVE

AutoSave:

This feature in Word is really a recovery feature, it DOES NOT SAVE your documents in true sense. What it does is save changes or entered text to a recovery file automatically for you at time intervals that you must set up. This function is VERY useful if you experience power outages, power failures, or you have to restart your computer before you could save or close your document.

TIP: You must have a document open to set this function and it is protection for your OPEN documents.

Open any document.

~~ Move POINTER to Tools (Located at top of your screen) and CLICK ~~ Move POINTER to Options and CLICK

An Options Box will appear and you will notice several * Tabs * you can click on. There is a lot of * stuff * here that you have probably never seen and a lot of things you can change and customize, but for now let’s continue.

~~ Move POINTER to SAVE Tab and CLICK You will see several little box buttons and you want to make sure button SAVE AUTORECOVER info every: is checked. If it’s not checked:

~~ Move POINTER to that box button and CLICK

Notice that you can change minutes that you want WORD to automatically save your open documents in case of a power surge or failure. I have mine set at 10. To change yours: ~~ Move POINTER and CLICK on little up or down arrow to change minutes. ~~ Move POINTER to OK and CLICK

WARNING, WARNING: After a surge, failure or a restart, WORD will open RECOVERY file and you MUST SAVE it or it will be DELETED!

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Now that we've had our mini lesson in RAM, I've found a really neat and inexpensive software program that helps solve your RAM memory problems: MemTurbo II. It will scour your system for memory leaks, or memory that wasn't released when a software program was shut down.

It operates in background to where you don't even know it's there. You'll just see a little green "bar" that indicates amount of available RAM on your system at that time. Every 15 minutes, program automatically recovers RAM, or whenever your RAM gets below a certain level.

You can even do a "deep scrub" that will find RAM that may not be picked up through a regular recover. I just performed a deep scrub on my system, and it recovered 64 MB of RAM.

MemTurbo II only costs $19.95, which is a bargain for what this little program does. You can even download a trial version of program and use it free for 30 days.

For me, MemTurbo is a "must have" program, because it helps my computer operate more efficiently and saves me a lot of headaches (and sanity). Visit MemTurbo site for more information: http://www.memturbo.com.

Robin Nobles, Director of Training, Academy of Web Specialists, (http://www.academywebspecialists.com) has trained several thousand people in her online search engine marketing courses (http://www.onlinewebtraining.com). She also teaches 3-day hands on search engine marketing workshops in locations across the globe with Search Engine Workshops(http://www.searchengineworkshops.com).

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