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4blove 4blove is offline
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Default i left a word doc open and it is lost... any advice?

ok. maybe you can help me. I did he exact same thing butthis has happen to
me before. therfore, i set my 10 minute auto save. but when i went back to
retrieve my document, my computer shut down(I assume to update). But i do
not understand why it did not auto save prior. becasue i worked on it
several hours before i left it idiling. also, i am not able to retrieve any
activites for that day. i had several windows open, but it will not show
those activities. do you ahve any suggestions on where i might can retrive
this data. Also, I am using vista

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

That's the point - if the document was not saved, there is nothing to
retrieve.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



4blove wrote:
Ok, it may have been "foolish" or "Insane " to leave a document open
over night. but your comment about the behavior is not needed. I
did the same thing on 7/17/08. And I too, am very devestated. So
please refrain from your opinion of the action, but give us helpful
advice. Because if that person was nearly as hurt as I was then they
already cried, screamed, belittled ourselves and more. So what advice
do you have to retrieve this document.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It is foolish to leave a document open unattended (much less
overnight). It is insane to leave an unsaved document open.
AutoRecovery helps only if Word crashes, but in this case what has
happened is that Windows Update, running in full-auto mode,
downloaded updates while you were away, installed them, and then
needed to restart Word. It did ask if you wanted to save your
document, but you weren't around to see that, so it autocratically
shut down your document and Word in order to restart Windows.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"smile5" wrote in message
...
I left a 2003 Word document open around 2 this morning at 8 when I
came back
to it was closed. and all the work I did from 10-2 is gone... I
thought I could use the auto recovery but I've been unsuccesful
even finding it.. please help
os is vista