If a document is closed normally, the temporary file that Word creates is
deleted automatically.

Turning on "Allow Fast Saves" will not make any difference and with the
speed of most modern computers is not necessary and in fact is not to be
recommended because it can lead to corruption of documents.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Pop" wrote in message
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
If you never saved it, there is nothing to retrieve. As Jack
Gillis
says, if you had ever saved it before, then the previously
saved
version is still intact.

=== Might it not still be there in a temporary file? Just
curious. Not sure how one would look for it though; sounds
pretty tedious. What is Fast Save was turned on?
Pop



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I closed a document without saving in error. Is it possible
to find
it on my hardrive. It was a long document.