Word mac won't always save - i'm losing work

I've been using Word for Mac over several years, but recently it's been failing intermittently to save changes to documents, with the result that I've been losing several hours' work. Though I key 'Command/S' frequently - even obsessively! - on these occasions it appears that the instruction to save is not getting through. I guess the document is 'hanging', with the software not 'realising' that changes are being made. I suspect the problem might be something to do with the link between software and OS, since I've also encountered this occasionally with Final Draft. Can anyone help?
I'm running Tiger on a PowerMac G5.
PowerMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

"Unfortunately it doesn't seem to prompt me to save before closing: that's the scary problem!"
Indeed that is a scary problem.
When was the last time you did any maintenance on your computer? If you doing any can you explain what you have done? Also, have you updated Office to the latest version? If your autoupdate feature (which is part of the Office install by default) is not working then you need to visit Microsoft's web site and download the files you need to update your version of Office.
If you have not done any maintenance on your Mac then I would suggest that you do steps 1 and 2 from the following FAQ. They don't take long to do and it may solve the problem.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
Don't worry about doing step 3. It probably is not needed and may do more harm than good at this point.
Do you have more than one copy of Word or Office installed? Many Macs come with a trial version installed. Microsoft recommends that you remove previous versions of Office before installing newer versions. If you have more than one version of Word it may be causing some corruption with the plist (preference) files which may also be causing the application to not prompt you to save when closing a document.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here though.

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