Backing Up On the Fly

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Backing up your work is simply storing copies of the same file in two or more different locations.  Backing Up On the Fly is saving your document to a second location while you are creating/editing it.

For this lesson I’m working on the assumption that you typically save to My Documents and you’re going to backup to “Your Name on Whs\Data\Staff\User…” on the server (or whatever your server name is)

 

First save/backup

 

File

Save As

Navigate to My Documents

Select the desired folder

Check document name

Click Save

 

File 

Save As

Navigate to Your Name on Whs\Data\Staff\User…

Select the desired folder

Check the document name

Click Save

 

When it’s time to save/backup again –

 

File 

Save (you will be saving to Your Name on Whs\Data\Staff\User…)

 

File 

Save As

Navigate to My Documents

Select the desired folder

Click Save

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click “Yes” or “OK”

 

The next time you save/backup –

 

File 

Save (you will be saving to My Documents)

 

File 

Save As

Navigate to Your Name on Whs\Data\Staff\User…

Select the desired folder

Click Save

Click “Yes” or “OK”