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Saved in error, can I retreive previous pages
I only needed to print out one paragraph of a 4 page document so deleted the
rest. Unfortunately I clicked on 'Save' instead of 'Print'. Can I retrieve the original 4 pages? Help!!!!! Please. |
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If you haven't closed the file, use Undo. If you have closed the file, you'd
better hope you have "Always create backup copy" enabled (Tools | Options | Save). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JanieCakeBread" wrote in message ... I only needed to print out one paragraph of a 4 page document so deleted the rest. Unfortunately I clicked on 'Save' instead of 'Print'. Can I retrieve the original 4 pages? Help!!!!! Please. |
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Boy, tough problem! I can't think of a solution right now. The only thing I can think of is using the backup file, but I believe this is only allowed if there is a power shortage -without- a save (when you restart Word, Word senses that a file was not shut-down properly before (there is a file that starts with '$~filename' in the directory) and so can revert to this backup instead of reopening the file from where it was last saved). Also I believe that this is worse than deleting the file accidentally; usually when a file is "delete", it is actually renamed with some symbol (eg a '$') at the beginning of the name, which lets the operating system know that the space on the disk is now available. However, there are programs out there (I believe Norton has one) that allows you to "ressurect" a deleted file by renaming it into a valid file name. This works best if there have been no (or few) other files saved after the time that the first was deleted; as more files get saved, there is a greater chance that the operating system will write over the space that was "deleted". This is how the police / FBI can look at files / e-mail that were "deleted". This is also why, if you plan to sell your computer / hard-drive, you should make sure to -erase- sensitive information ("erasing" being the process of writing over "deleted" space with nonsense / random data). Thus, if Word were to "delete" your original document and then save the modified document with the same name (but in a different physical location on the hard-drive) then you might be able to recover the deleted file. However if Word actually writes over the space with the new document, then you might be out of luck. It may be worth a try to see if you can recover / ressurect the deleted file, especially if the file is very important and you do not have a hard-copy of it. Just a tip for the future, if you just needed a particular page or paragraph printed out, you may just want to go to the 'File' menu and select 'Print...' (the one with the elipses / '...' at the end). There you can select whether to print out a page, a range of pages, or a selection (ie select a paragraph you want to print and check the selection box in the 'Print...' pop-up window). Another tip to save you some grief in the future is to do a quick "Save As..." before making any major modifications. Just "Save As..." the document with a different name, thus creating a backup that you will be working on. Then if you do accidentally hit the "save" button, it will just save to this new file instead of corrupting you original. This is also a good habit to do if you start writing very large documents. I learned the hard way when writing a paper for school. As I was writing the paper, I follow that old saying to "Save and save often". However, I kept saving the file to the same name. At one point, I realized that a few paragraphs that I had taken out of one of my earlier drafts would work well now in this new draft. But I had already deleted those paragraphs and had saved over the document. So now if I have a large document to write, I "Save, save often, and save with different names"! Good luck! Let us know if you find some solution! -- Pyth007 |
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