Hi,

I accidentally saved over a version of a document I needed. I went into
"versions" and nothing was there. How can I recover this older version of
the document?

-Stu

On 03 Dec 2004 04:14:50 GMT, (Stugrad98) wrote:

Hi,

I accidentally saved over a version of a document I needed. I went into
"versions" and nothing was there. How can I recover this older version of
the document?

-Stu

Look for a file named "Backup of xyz.wbk" where the xyz part is the
name of your file. If you're lucky, you had the "Automatically save a
backup" option turned on in Tools Options Save. If you didn't save
a backup copy, you can't recover a previous version -- the bits have
vanished.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm for some
advice to avoid the problem in the future.

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