pages reeling by on Word Processor

[Alice]

I am working on page one and suddenly the pages go by..If it is only a few I can go back, but today it was 72 and I lost my work.

[Barry]

I am working on page one and suddenly the pages go by..If it is only a few I can go back, but today it was 72 and I lost my work.

My guess is that you're resting your arm on the enter key.

Pressing enter (on the number pad, not the return/enter key above the right side shift key) inserts a column break character. In a single column document, a column break moves the insertion point immediately to the next page.

Your work is probably not lost. If the insertion point was at the end of what you had typed, the work should still be on page 1, followed by (in this case) 71 column break characters.

You can use Find/Change to quickly remove these.

Open the document, press command -F to open the Find/Change dialogue.
Type "\c" in the Find box. Leave the Change box empty.
Click Change All.
Click OK in the warning, then click OK in the alert telling you how many changes were made.

Regards,
Barry