Network issues - General Good Practice

[DrSmyth]

Bit of a general question this:
We've been having some network access issues recently and a lot of our end users have been losing there work (i.e. working on Excel or Word, the network goes down so they're unable to save the work before hometime or lose everything they are working on)..

I've decided to put together a list of does and don'ts to minimise the impact of these network problems such as saving work every half an hour and if a network problem occurs, saving to there local hard drive.

I was wondering if anybody else had any suggestions for things to add to the list..

Cheers

 

[dinger2121]

Autosave in Excel is a good one. Here is a link to enable it in Excel 2000, among other versions -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213943

Excel 2007 has an option to Save autorecover information. This can be found in Excel options > save.

I am not sure how to enable this (or if it's enabled by default) in Excel 2003.