Can you get word to save things in 2 places?

[Katymac]

Please - as in in My Docs plus in an external drive

TIA
KMc

Yes, you just do File - Save As and select where you want it, then do that again and select the other place.

It won't do a copy to somewhere else automatically?

Not that I am aware of but somebody may come along who knows better.

Thanks for trying

Can't you just do 'Save as' and put the copy somewhere else? I do that all the time at work.

Is this because you want to do a regular backup? I can't think of any way to do it without quite a bit of work (although I'm sure it's possible).
You're better off just saving it locally and making a rule of every hour, say, stopping what you're doing and backing it up.
If you really want to do something like this, the obvious way (to me anyway, but someone may come along who knows more) is to write a batch file to do the save and then schedule it.

ALthough even that would probably have problems if the document was open at the time...

OK Katy - didn't understand most of that [dim]

Sorry, I'm not very good at explaining
Anyway, I can think of a few ways, but all would take a few hours to set up - I assumed from your OP that you were hoping there would be something in one of the menus in Word? AFAIK there isn't, but if there is then I'd love to know about it!

OK that answers my question - I'll get my little man in

You just have to save twice in 2 places, as easy as that.

Well if he knows a way, will you post on here as that would be really useful

If you go to Tools - Options - Save Tab there is an option (in Word 2003) to Save a local copy of files saved to an external drive.

I haven't got time to play with it at the moment, but I will later. It sounds as though you could save your work to the external drive and it would put a copy on My Docs?

As everyone's said, within Word you can use Save As, however, if you want to copy files from the computer to an external drive, go into one of the Windows menus - eg from My Computer, go to wherever your Word documents are saved, select document(s) to copy and then click on the icon for your external hard drive and Paste (Control + v). You can copy a number of documents or a whole folder this way too.

I realised I needed to get an external hard drive when my computer crashed - I knew the only way to get it working again would be to format the drive which had most stuff stored (annoyingly, as I had enough space on the computer's own second hard drive to back up too!)

Now, I've foolishly managed to bury my external drive in the spare room, and until I've had my baby I can't move things around there to hunt for it.

Backing up on XP
Is this any help?
More here

How about setting up MS sync tool which will sync selected areas to a second location.

Do I have an MS sync tool?

what about that "briefcase" thing in folders? does anyone else know anything about that? i haven't used it so i could be talking rubbish, but it looked like some sort of self updating thing?