Total Newb V2 Win12 Pub questions about saving

[soupy]

I am totally new. I got Publisher about a week ago and started playing around with my coffee table book right away and have found it stable (it's been open ever since I got it!) and quite intuitive. I ended up "playing" with 65 image heavy pages. But, I need to shut it down and I don't know how. Oddly, I haven't been able to find a simple answer to this simple question.

Right now, it is just 65 pages. It's not a book, but it will be. I planned to do the book sections separately and then put them together... if I can do that.

 

Any help or point in the right direction will be appreciated. Thank you for your time and for putting up with dumb questions from a newb.

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @soupy

First save the document via menu “File → Save” (or “File → Save As…” depending on whether you want to overwrite an existing version of the document or not), then exit the application via menu “File → Exit”.

[soupy]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forums @soupy

First save the document via menu “File → Save” (or “File → Save As…” depending on whether you want to overwrite an existing version of the document or not), then exit the application via menu “File → Exit”.

Thank you! I wasn't sure if it would save all of the pages together. I tried it last night. I saved a package to an external SSD, too. For safe  keeping.

Dumb question answered.

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

Note: Creating a package as a backup can be a good idea but each package will contain all of the linked resources so creating lots of them could start to fill your storage unnecessarily. Worth keeping an eye on that just in case.

[soupy]

20 minutes ago, GarryP said:

You’re welcome.

Note: Creating a package as a backup can be a good idea but each package will contain all of the linked resources so creating lots of them could start to fill your storage unnecessarily. Worth keeping an eye on that just in case.

Got it! I dated it and overwrite with updates.

[carl123]

14 hours ago, soupy said:

I am totally new. I got Publisher about a week ago and started playing around with my coffee table book right away and have found it stable (it's been open ever since I got it!)

That workflow is a disaster waiting to happen

• At the very least, you should be saving regularly as you work on your book (e.g. every hour) and when finished for the day (or any significant period) save the document and close it.
• Do not work off networked drives or local drives that are synched to any cloud service
• Invest in a proper backup software package that will back up your files automatically every day (minimum)

The software can be unstable in certain situations and lots of users have unsuccessfully visited these forums to see if their corrupted (or unsaved) files can be recovered. Most are unrecoverable 

 

[soupy]

20 minutes ago, carl123 said:

That workflow is a disaster waiting to happen

• At the very least, you should be saving regularly as you work on your book (e.g. every hour) and when finished for the day (or any significant period) save the document and close it.
• Do not work off networked drives or local drives that are synched to any cloud service
• Invest in a proper backup software package that will back up your files automatically every day (minimum)

The software can be unstable in certain situations and lots of users have unsuccessfully visited these forums to see if their corrupted (or unsaved) files can be recovered. Most are unrecoverable 

 

Thank you, yes, I am familiar with regular saving. When I started this, it was so easy I just kept going with it- then I realized that I wasn't sure if I was saving all the pages or just the current one. All is good now. Getting ready to shut it down, too. I know I got lucky.