Was in the middle of a message to a friend last night & in checking for the correct spelling of a word I had previously used Yahoo search for,  accidently clicked on search & came back to an empty message.  Is there any way to recover what u have previously written if that happens again?   Frustrating as a very slow typist.

BOY do I know how frustrating that is. At this time I am not sure of that answer, I do know that if you go to another page without opening a new tab you loose everything, but as for spell checking I would recommend iespell.com. Your message can be checked right on the page that you are typing on so there is no need to leave page or open other tab to check spelling. Once you leave the page that you are typing on everything is gone.Suzan  

No chance of recovering a lost message.  If you're typing a real long message, suggest you do a copy of it periodically so you won't lose it.  It would seem to be just good practice to do so, then if you hit the wrong button or ? you would be able to paste what you had already copied back in and continue with your message.

Thanks Mouse,  never thought to do that.  Always the simple things that are the best eh!!!  Think the brain is on permanent holiday lately.  Susan,  usually go to my windows live mail but thought the word would not be there.