Saving topics

It's a good idea to periodically save your work as you author topic content. This is especially important if you are working on the same topic for a long time. (Topics are also automatically saved when you close a topic or open another one.)

To save the latest edits:

If you work with several different components including topics, keywords and the table of contents, save all changes as you work.

To save all changes:

Autosaving topics

By default, changes to the current topic are saved whenever you open another topic or close the project without saving your edits. You can disable this setting if necessary. If you make changes to a topic and realize that you want to recover the content prior to making changes, you can temporarily undo autosave to recover the previous copy of the file. (It's not a good idea to leave this feature off as a default setting.)

To disable the autosave feature:

  1. From the Tools menu, select Options.

  2. Click the General tab.

  3. In Options, clear the check box for Save without Prompt.