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I saved a word document, closed it, and re opened. most of its gon
I have been working on a Word document for a month now and I finally finished
it a few days ago. Today I opened it and made a small change that I regret making. I saved it, closed word, and then went back to change another thing. When I opened the file, 90% of it was gone! I don't understand how that happened, but that's not really the question I want answered. I want to know if there is any way that I can open the old file, the one I saved a few days ago, because they are both under the same name and whenever I try to open it up, I still see the new, useless one. Can someone explain to me how I can find my old file? Please? |
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I saved a word document, closed it, and re opened. most of its gon
Unless you have a backup of it somewhere, it's gone.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jenni" wrote in message ... I have been working on a Word document for a month now and I finally finished it a few days ago. Today I opened it and made a small change that I regret making. I saved it, closed word, and then went back to change another thing. When I opened the file, 90% of it was gone! I don't understand how that happened, but that's not really the question I want answered. I want to know if there is any way that I can open the old file, the one I saved a few days ago, because they are both under the same name and whenever I try to open it up, I still see the new, useless one. Can someone explain to me how I can find my old file? Please? |
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I saved a word document, closed it, and re opened. most of its gon
It happened presumably because you had some text selected when you made the
'small change' which deleted the selected text. If you used Save rather than SaveAs and you have Word configures to automatically create backups, you will have a backup of the file in the same folder as the original that contains the last previously saved version. If you don't have the backup function switched on then do so now, for your future benefit. You cannot have two files of the same name in the same folder. The Windows filing system does not allow that. If you have saved over a file and have no backup, there is no way back to the file you have replaced. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jenni wrote: I have been working on a Word document for a month now and I finally finished it a few days ago. Today I opened it and made a small change that I regret making. I saved it, closed word, and then went back to change another thing. When I opened the file, 90% of it was gone! I don't understand how that happened, but that's not really the question I want answered. I want to know if there is any way that I can open the old file, the one I saved a few days ago, because they are both under the same name and whenever I try to open it up, I still see the new, useless one. Can someone explain to me how I can find my old file? Please? |
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I saved a word document, closed it, and re opened. most of its gon
In Word 2003, try going to File, then Open, then select the 1st version, then
tools, recover previous version "Jenni" wrote: I have been working on a Word document for a month now and I finally finished it a few days ago. Today I opened it and made a small change that I regret making. I saved it, closed word, and then went back to change another thing. When I opened the file, 90% of it was gone! I don't understand how that happened, but that's not really the question I want answered. I want to know if there is any way that I can open the old file, the one I saved a few days ago, because they are both under the same name and whenever I try to open it up, I still see the new, useless one. Can someone explain to me how I can find my old file? Please? |
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I saved a word document, closed it, and re opened. most of its gon
I don't see a "Recover Previous Version" item on the Tools menu in the Open
dialog in Word 2003. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "PJY" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, try going to File, then Open, then select the 1st version, then tools, recover previous version "Jenni" wrote: I have been working on a Word document for a month now and I finally finished it a few days ago. Today I opened it and made a small change that I regret making. I saved it, closed word, and then went back to change another thing. When I opened the file, 90% of it was gone! I don't understand how that happened, but that's not really the question I want answered. I want to know if there is any way that I can open the old file, the one I saved a few days ago, because they are both under the same name and whenever I try to open it up, I still see the new, useless one. Can someone explain to me how I can find my old file? Please? |
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