AutoRecovery in Microsoft Word is not supported

AutoRecovery is the Microsoft Word feature where Microsoft Word saves a file regularly to a special temporary file. This allows it to recover a document after a crash. This feature is not supported for the ITP/MDK Repository. That is to say, you can still use the AutoRecovery feature but it will not be automatic. To get the recovered text in the ITP/MDK Repository follow the procedure as described below.

Start when Microsoft Word has crashed and you need to start again:

1. Start the ITP/MDK Repository, if it is not already running.
2. Start Microsoft Word.

   Microsoft Word starts with a (Recovered) version of the file you were editing. The problem is that you cannot save this file to the ITP/MDK Repository.

3. Save this recovered file to your file system. For instance to C:\temp\recover
4. Go back to the ITP/MDK Repository, select the [in development] revision of the crashed document and choose Compare to local file… in the Edit menu and select the recovered file.

   The ITP/MDK Repository will compare the recovered version with the selected [in development] revision and show the differences.

5. The differences identified you can copy/paste them in the ITP/MDK Repository version of the document.
6. Double click in the ITP/MDK Repository the document you were editing before the crash.

   The ITP/Model Development Kit starts, showing the document's [in development] revision.

There is another way; loading the saved recovered file. There are two major drawbacks to this approach. First, it will create a revision whereas in the procedure above you edit the existing [in development] revision. Second, Microsoft Word's Recovery mechanism is far from perfect and can play havoc with ITP encoded texts.

Note

We do not recommend that you load a recovered document.