Word 2011 is not saving on macbook pro

I am using Word 2011 on MBPro 10.6.8. Writing up my MA dissertation and found to my shock that Word has not saved any changes over the past week, despite me saving, having auto-recovery and back up every 10 minutes on. I also saved to Dropbox, usually reliable.
Now I have lost 3 days work, not happy. Cant find the doc. anywhere, no back ups exist and nothing on Dropbox.
Any ideas on why Word isn't saving? Finally I then tried saving as a .doc, and after the coloured wheel spinning it saved.
Nightmare.

As Word is a Microsoft product you'll get better support on the Word for Mac forums.

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