Been there, done that, said the same thing
Dan beat me to it, I set any W/P to auto-save mode if I can. with the time set to one minute.
I started using Word-Perfect a short time ago. TBH it seems more stable than MS Word. A little less flexible, but it does have a Grammer checker in it.
As for your question about Micro-sucks products?
You have to ASK!?!?!?
