Computer frustration

I've been working on my annual Christmas poem today. It's not great poetry but I have fun composing it, unless, of course the computer program doesn't cooperate. I have two programs I can write with, Word and Wordpad. Wordpad is simpler but Word offers more options so I decided to use Word. The typing went fine and I saved it, or thought I did, then couldn't find it later.  A mysterious blank document popped up, yikes! I searched through several files, thinking I had accidentally deleted it (panic time) until it finally showed up in, of course, the last file I checked. Not willing to risk having to go through this hunt again, I copied and pasted it into Wordpad where it is readily accessible.  Sometimes simple is much better.