I'm working on my IQP or other major project. To ensure that important documents stay safe you should follow a few simple steps that can save a lot of agony and distress. Backup - Keep multiple copies of your document. It can be convenient and reliable to save your documents to your network drive space. By saving it to the network you will not only have the convenience of being able to edit the file from anywhere, you will also have the handy backup copy in case something goes wrong.
Floppies are unreliable and it is very easy to lose months worth of work.
In addition, you must never remove a floppy disk which contains a document on which you are working in Word and replace it with another. Word will continue writing to the second disk believing it to be the first, and when you return the first disk it will continue writing where it stopped on the second. The result is invariably two trashed disks on which all your work will have been lost.