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Word Recovery Panel Disaster
My son called from college in a panic, having lost 5 pages of text in
a paper he is writing in Word. The PC froze, and he got the recovery panel, and clicked on his document, feeling relief to find all the text there. He then selected "merge into existing file" and found to his horror that this resulted in his document now being sans 5 pages of the recent typing. He was using a computer lab PC, and the search capability of Windows Explorer is disabled. It is after hours, and no one with the college IT is available. I advised him to walk away and move on to other work that needs to be done, thinking if the data is there now it will be there tomorrow. I do not know what the Word autorecovery settings are on that PC/network. He is worried that due to the "merge into existing file" choice in the recovery panel, that there will be no autorecovery file available. My thought is that there should be some autorecovery file there, even if it is only 4 of the lost 5 pages. Thanks so much Stan Denman |
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