Microsoft Word On Mac Not Letting Me Save My Work

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I've just started having this problem. I dread contacting the Microsoft hepline. They'll either keep for hours and hours (literally) and maybe not have a clue what they are doing. I had this very problem last time. The girl on the other end insisted there was no problem. She said this because she didn't know what she was doing. I told her that when I the solution could I contact her to tell her. She did not respond.
Anyway, hope I didn't put you off, but all that to say that Word 2016 has given me endless headaches. it is so glitchy. 2013 was great. Why did they have to screw it up with Word 2016?
I now have a document finished that I cannot save. Based on the last time this happened I will lose everything since the last manual save I did. I have it hooked up to an external HD. I did unplug it to transfer some files onto a memory stick. Wondering if autosave somehow got screwed up trying to work but having nowhere to save to.
Is there anything I can do in the immediate to save my work and what can I do to rectify this problem?
Thank you in advance for any help rendered.
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Symptoms

When you set a font as the default font in Microsoft Office Word 2010 and Word 2013, and you then restart Word, the changes are not retained.

Cause

This can happen when you only apply the settings to the open document and not to all documents.

Resolution

Method 1

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To set and make sure that the style of the default font in Word 2010 or Word 2013 is retained or saved, follow these steps:

  1. If you do not have a document open, create a new document that is based on the Normal template. To do this, click File, click New, click Blank Document, and then click Create.

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  2. In the Font group, click the Font flyout to open the font dialog box.

  3. Select the options that you want to apply to the default font, such as font style and font size. If you selected specific text, the properties of the selected text are set in the dialog box.

  4. Click Set As Default.

  5. Select All documents based on the Normal.dotm template?

  6. Click OK.

  7. This guarantees that every new document you open will use the font settings that you selected and set as the default. The default font applies to new documents that are based on the active template, usually Normal.dotm.

Method 2

To set and make sure that the style of the default font in Word 2013 is retained or saved, follow these steps:

  1. If you do not have a document open, create a new document that is based on the Normal template. To do this, click File, click New, click Blank Document, and then click Create.
  2. Click on the Design tab at the top and set all of the options that you want in your template.
  3. Click Set as Default.
  4. Click OK.

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