Thanks Charles. Right now, I'm counting on finding a usable back-up version
in the office network back-up servers.

The reason I posted the question to the forum was because somebody mentioned
the fact that it is sometimes possible to go look at the revision history of
a Word file but I'm not sure that applies in my case because I over-wrote
rather than revised the file!

bye,
prasanna

www.prasanna.org.in

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

The only way I know of is retrieving a backup, if you have one. If you are
going to try this, it is vital that you not open and edit the document that
is there now until after you have done a restoration.

Under Tools Options Save is the option to always save a backup copy
checked?
Do you have any other software that routinely backs up your data?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"prasannalaldas" wrote in message
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I guess this is a long shot, but do you know of any way to retrieve an
earlier version of a Word file that was mistakenly overwritten? The
context
-- I mistakenly replaced a recent version of a Word document with an older
version while moving files across folders and am now stuck with a file
that I
don't need, while the much updated copy isn't accessible any more. Thanks.