Laptop frozen with spinning beach ball, how to save work

E_3_J_4 wrote:

My laptop is frozen with spinning beach ball. What can I do to save what I was working on?

I guess given time the beachball could finally resolve itself. If not you can force quit the stuck app

>Force Quit>>(?)

If not—You can always force quit a shutdown by holding the power button/TouchID for ~6-10 sec.

Force Shut down your Mac.

Log out, sleep, wake, restart or shut down your Mac

Shut down or restart your Mac - Apple Support

it may be possible once rebooted— from local snapshots and/ or depending on the application the Revert to last saved , may save your bacon...

on-board Time Machine local snapshots

About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support

I'm afraid, your content can't be saved actively, if your work has not been saved automatically by Time Machine, for example, the data is gone.

Can you see the TaskManager if you press cmd+alt+esc ?