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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).

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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!


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