Having an issue with MS Word 2010.

This morning at 1:00 AM I finished a short story, complete with the extra spaces between paragraphs that Drupal requires. As far as I was concerned, it was ready to publish.

This morning I got up and decided to give it one last read to check for continuity. Much to my discomfiture, all those blooming extra carriage returns are gone! Can I have not remembered correctly? Did I forget to save my work? I am quite certain that I saved it and I have auto save set at 5 minutes.

So, now I must go searching for a Microsoft booby trap that perhaps does some sort of auto format. Perhaps if said functon exists, I can disable it?

I have never used this Toshiba lap top to write with, and I wonder if some sort of memory deficency causes it to make mistakes? Maybe the same could be said of myself?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Gwendolyn