Comments on: No autorecover in PowerPoint 2004?!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:28:56 +0000

I lost 4 hours of work on PowerPoint for my Mac. The totally screwed up thing is that I was Saving. I wasn’t relying on the autosave feature which popped up every ten minutes. I was saving after I finished the updates for each module. I totally want to kick Bill Gates ass for selling this crappy software. I think I’m going to go ahead and buy Keynote today. I actually used it for a month in the full use demo mode. It’s about 100 times better then the crap software powerpoint. Looks better, is tons easier to figure out and use. And it doesn’t arbitrarily just do weird shit for now apparent reason. Only thing is that PPT doesn’t support some of the really cool transitions… so if you’re going to convert it to Power Point for someone else you have to go easy on using the really cool stuff.

By: Karin

Karin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:12:48 +0000

terrible… 3 hours lost work.. and it is midnight I lost a beautiful powerpoint and can start from scratch.. cannot believe it is really gone with the ‘autorecovery alert’ passing by every 10 minutes.. Unbelievable. Stupid.

By: Dr. K’s Software Ruminations » Blog Archive » Low-tech fix for the PowerPoint autorecover problem

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:32:47 +0000

[...] in July, I wrote about an unbelievably frustrating bug in PowerPoint 2004 for Mac. I got burned back in July and lost a very productive several hours of work. Tonight I’m [...]

By: mh

mh — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:31:33 +0000

But Keynote doesn’t have any auto-save either!!!!

By: crazed

crazed — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:22:20 +0000

15 hours into a presentation build and I have just found the same!! only 7 more hours till i am meant to present this and no hope of redoing in time. I think I;m going to shoot myself

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:44:54 +0000

To read this and know that someone has tried what I want to attempt tonight, and to hear that it is futile…well it helps actually to know that it can’t be done. If I were to rebuild now and wonder in the back of my mind if it wasn’t all there somewhere…I’d go crazy. So thank you for venting. Back to rebuilding for me. The irony is the crash was caused by me trying to make a backup onto a jump drive.

By: Julian Harris, Social Computing Guy » Google Docs update: Microsoft had better watchout!

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:02:58 +0000

[...] supported ‘autorecovery’ features for some time now (at least on the PC) but Google is ahead of the game, indeed, many players, by making ’save’ [...]

By: » A First Look at Numbers | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

» A First Look at Numbers | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:09:19 +0000

[...] other day a colleague who uses OS X spoke to me, angry at the fact that Powerpoint’s “auto-save” feature hadn’t actually done any saving and a crash left him with hours of work undone. He asked me “what do you use to build [...]

By: Z

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:08:42 +0000

So? How goes the transition? I have been giving thought to the iWork suite, but would so like a better spreadsheet than what passes for excel in the original Office for OSX