O.O. help

[Cyia]

I use Open Office instead of MS Word, and something strange/troubling happened with it a few minutes ago. It started deleting my pages on its own.

I was on 175 and it deleted down to 40. Thankfully I'd already saved all but about the last 2 pages I'd typed, so it wasn't too bad, but I can't figure out what I did to start the delete-a-thon.

Any ideas?

[LOG]

Did it just suddenly drop them while you were working, or did you open it up to discover you'd lost 130 pages?

[Cyia]

It dropped them while I was working. I told it to "undo" the last three changes I'd made and then it started zipping back through pages and obliterating them.

[Regan Leigh]

Did your keyboard get stuck while you were pressing Control Z?

[Cyia]

No. :(

I even ran Malwarebytes to make sure it wasn't some weird virus.

I closed the document and reopened and the 175 are still saved, but I'm iffy about messing with it until I figure out what happened.

[chats]

I think OO saves a back-up copy every few minutes as you type, so you don't need to worry too much.

[nonantroll]

I've found that "UNDO" can be very troublesome in many applications.
Photoshop went wild on me that way.
So did the HTML editor I use just about every day.

Open Office has always been famous for its bugs, just as all Microsloth products are.
I still can't get OO to remember which font and paragraph style to use. I admit I've never tried UNDO on it, and thanks to your post, I won't.
I advise never using it.

When you delete a block of text, use Ctrl-X. Then, if you need it back, a Ctrl-V will resurrect it.

[Margarita Skies]

There's nothing I hate more than opening my manuscript and noticing that I've actually lost words and chapters without deleting anything. It makes me feel like a troll got on my computer somehow and stole my work, no hacker, just a supernatural event or something.