[glock rocks]

It's aggravating to transcribe video just to have "Word" lock up and loose about 4 hours of work

You don't have autosave turned on? Search in Word Help for autorecovery.

[Yosemitest]

Thanks. I've give that a try.
I think I was running too many open tabs in Internet Explorer,
overloaded the memory,
and froze up my Word 97 program.
When I went to save the file, Word wouldn't respond.
I tried copying the file through Windows Explorer, and opening the copied file, but I still lost several hours of work.