Not unless Word has been saving backup copies automatically. Check Tools -
Options - Save and see if Always Create Backup Copy is enabled; if it is,
then look file files matching *.wbk (in earlier versions of Word, the
extension for backup copies of doc files was different).

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"teacher" wrote in message
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have been working on a word document...for weeks, but hadnt backed it
up...
thismorning it had an error, tried to restore..only got about 1/50 of
it..very sad..it has words tables and images(only small ones about 5)...is
there a simple way to restore it to a previosuly saved version but not
todays
?