Microsoft Word

Please help

I dont know if it is possible but i was working on an assignment on Microsoft Word and accidently came out of Word and i hadnt saved it. Is there any way i can retrieve all of this work instead of having to do it all again


Thanks
Nomad

word autosaves every now and again, if you open microsoft aplication recovery ( a program found in your microsoft office folder) you should be able to open the recovery of the file, it may not all be there, but some of it should be

Thanks for your reply where abouts will i find the application recovery i have gone into the microsoft office folder and there is nothing in there by that name ?

Thanks again
Nomad

start, all programs, microsoft ofice, microsoft office tools,microsoft aplication recovery, if theres nothing there, u may find when u re open word itll say "recovered document"

no nothing... i cant believe this it took me 5 hours to create this and its gone

Thanks anyway

hmm bair with me ill see if i can find nethin out, if not there are many more experianced people around here than me, they miht b able to help,

do u have autosave turned on? if not, u may aswell turn it on, incase somthing like this happens in the future word will automatically recover the document for you

I'll turn it on

Thanks

I've never seen the recovery option that Clairelovestlc refers to so I guess it must be an Office 2003 feature. If you re-open Word after a crash (by starting it from the Start Menu), then it is supposed to open the recovered document .... if it is able to recover everything. However, it sounds like it didn't crash but you actually closed Word yourself and, when it said "Do you want to save this document?", you told it not to.

Well ....... erm ........ I think "the answer is in the question" as the saying goes!

For future reference, switching on auto-save, as Clairelovestlc suggests, is definitely a good idea. You can find this on the Tools menu under Options. Bear in mind though that it can only auto-save a document that you've saved before. Whenever I'm starting an important or long document, the first thing I do is save it in a place that I'll remember and with a filename that I'll recognise. Then, auto-save keeps it up-to-date every 5 minutes or so.

P.S. Never trust a computer too much! Always save important work regularly.

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i think the recovery thing is just a feature of office 2003,