Save your job from your computer

We all know how utterly frustrating it is to have an article suddenly disappear from our list on Ehow. Either a glitch causes it, or you lose one during Ehow's famous “article sweeps”. Here's my solution for this problem. This how to is for the computer Novice still learning about their computer.

Step 1
It is always a good idea to write your article before publishing it to Ehow on notepad, Microsoft Word, or Open Office. This will enable you to edit your articles beforehand but more importantly you can go ahead and save all of your work to your hard drive so that it can be recovered should it get lost or deleted online.
Step 2
Once your article is completed in your notepad etc. You will want to go up to the lefthand corner of your document and look for the word “file”. Click on this word and a new window will open up over your written work. With your cursor, scroll down to “save as”. Click on the “save as” and you will see yet again a new window pop up in front of your document. You will see in Large letters located at the top of this window the words SAVE AS, and below it “save in” and a drop down menu that will be titled “my documents”. Look down and you will see near the bottom of this window is two drop down menus. One says, “file name” with the word Untitled 1 in it. Here you will type in the name of yourarticle. Now, look at the drop down menu below this, it will say “Save As Type”. Go to the arrow on this drop down menu and scroll all the way until you see these words, Text (.txt).
Click on this link Your screen will blip for a second but then you see the Button to your right that says SAVE. Click on this. Yourarticle has now been saved to your hard drive.
Step 3
To save your articles you have already written on Ehow, you must go to the article page, and go to the bottom and copy and paste your entire article. Pull up your note pad after doing so.
Paste the entire article onto your notepad, and where you see an “X” on your notepad click this. A little window will pop up that will say, The text in the untitled page has changed. Do you wantto save? Click “yes”. A new window will pop up, and just as indicated earlier you will type the name of your article in the drop down menu where is says “file name”. You will then click “SAVE”. You have saved your ehow article to your hard drive. It will be located where you can find it in the My Documents section of your computer. To retrieve it, simply go to your start button on your computer, and go to My Documents. You can also go to the top of your page and right click on File and scroll to the word “open” and find it from the list that way.
Step 4
If your article gets lost or deleted, find your copy, and re title it and possibly edit it some more and then resubmit it.