I have found that Word 2016 is saving a doc with the same name in two locations in the documents file.

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One is in a folder, labeled for the book I'm working on. Then, the file with the same name is in the documents folder itself.

I found the problem by working on the file one day, and the next, opening it. I found the changes were missing.

I did some digging, and found the file in the book folder last accessed the day before. The one in the documents file was last accessed two days before.

I think when I hit control-save throughout my session, that is is saving to the original location. Or not. I can't tell.

Therefore, I am working on stuff, losing it, continuing on...then overwriting it, apparently.

I'm not sure how this can happen, exactly.

All I know is, scenes I know I wrote are missing. This is maddening and really depressing.

I save it to One Drive, also. But am I still doing the same thing?

I will have to compare the two files, and try to see which one has the most scenes. At any rate, that's a lot of work.

Does anybody know anything about this? I can add a screenshot to better illustrate what I mean if I need to.

If I stop quick saving, and always use the drop down to "save as" and then overwrite, will that stop this weird problem?

The document was originally created in Word 2007.

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