On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:39:04 -0700, "Gary"
wrote:

Help needed.

I accidentally save a Microsoft word file to another Microsoft word file
with the same file name. I realized the latter has much more contents that I
need. I have been using Microsoft OfficeXP professional version. Is there any
way to restore the one that was over written? Please advice.

Thank you very much.

If you had the "Always make backup copy" option checked in Tools
Options Save, then there would be a file in the same folder with the
name "Backup of your doc.wbk" containing the previous version of the
document. If that box was unchecked, and if you have no other backups
of the previous version, then it's gone.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm for some things you can
do to prevent a recurrence of the situation.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org