Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office XP

Setting Up Automatic Backup and Recovery Options

Office XP comes with "air bags"—a sophisticated set of programs that are designed to make crashes less frequent, to make crashes less devastating when they do occur, and to increase your chances of recovering a document when Office does crash. These are the important points to keep in mind:

• If an Office application "hangs"—goes out to lunch and doesn't come back—you should shut it down using the Office Application Recovery program. Click Start, Programs, Microsoft Office Tools, and choose Microsoft Office Application Recovery. Avoid using Task Manager or the other Windows tools—Office is one of the few Windows programs that ships with tools specifically designed to dislodge a "hang." We will note ...