Only if you have "Always create backup copy" enabled on the Save tab of
Tools | Options, and possibly not even then depending on how you saved the
doc.

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"Repurr" wrote in message
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I have in error saved a blank version of a file with the same name etc (I
now
have a blank document with name of file which previously contained text).
Is
there any way of recovering previous file?
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Regards

Repurr