Microsoft Skydrive - USELESS and dangerous too

FoxEye · 23 Jun 2011 at 22:57

Just spent several hours writing a new CV using MS Word web app. In the help section Microsoft excitedly informs you, "Why is there no save button? Your documents are automatically saved as you type!"

So when I'm done I simply navigate away to a different page. You know where this is going, don't you.

After coming back to the document, I find all my work is lost, and the file still contains my OLD cv.

All these hours tonight I may as well just have watched TV.

me227 · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:06

Get Open Office.

tres · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:07

Dropbox

matthab · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:08

whats wrong with the old method? Saving in My Documents.

cymatty · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:09

All about Google Docs.

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:09

What, you mean where it says 'save'?

Pudney · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:15

There is a save button...

FoxEye · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:21

Pudney said:
There is a save button...

Yeah in truth I'd only ever used the online version of Excel, and that has no save button, because it saves as you type.

I assumed (haha) that this would be common functionality in all the web apps. So I didn't even look for a save button in the online Word.

Why, why why would they have such conflicting schemes in their web apps.... But yeah, I have to take some of the blame I guess.

Jimbeam3678 · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:21

AS been said there is google docs as well

Dark_Angel · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:24

FoxEye said:
Yeah in truth I'd only ever used the online version of Excel, and that has no save button, because it saves as you type.

I assumed (haha) that this would be common functionality in all the web apps. So I didn't even look for a save button in the online Word.

Why, why why would they have such conflicting schemes in their web apps.... But yeah, I have to take some of the blame I guess.

FoxEye · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:47

Not sure what those smilies mean (I can guess tho

) but I do think I've got a point, here.

If you get used to not having to save (Excel Online), and you know from past experience that all the Office suite of apps behave in largely the same way, then it's understandable to make the assumption that you wouldn't have to save in Word Online.

OK, so it's a wrong assumption, but if you're making an online suite of programs, making one where you don't have to save and one where you do have to save... it's asking for trouble, surely...

Pudney · 23 Jun 2011 at 23:54

If it makes it any better you made me log into my hotmail which had been hacked to discover that. Although I haven't used my hotmail for about 6 years now and all it gets is spam.