I have to vent somewhere. I know everyone's been in this position at one point or another, so don't flame me too badly....
I just spent a month writing out the clinic's new procedure manual. It has taken me nearly 55 hours to type this out, primarily because a lot of the information has never been written down. It's simply in a MS Word document. I saved along the way. I printed hard copies for revisions. I thought I did everything right.
Then last Saturday, I spent a marathon 3-hour stint doing final revisions and changes to the page order. I created a new file to do this, doing a copy from the old file and paste to the new one. (I know it's extra work, but I thought I should keep the old one for back up.) I hit the save button after every new chapter. I didn't print it this time because I thought I'd wait till I got to work on Monday.
Yet, I opened up the file today to find only a quarter of it there!! I have done every search I can think of, but the final version I had Saturday afternoon has disappeared completely. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED!! :angry:
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