[Baseball Paul]

help! I lost a word document that took 2 hours. can I find it somewhere?

[Stefan Blom]

That depends on how you lost the document.

If Word crashed, there should be an AutoRecover file available.

If "Always create backup copy" was selected in Tools | Options (Save
tab) you can open a previous *.wbk version of the file.

If the file was never saved, there is nothing to retrieve.

For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Baseball Paul" wrote in message
...
help! I lost a word document that took 2 hours. can I find it
somewhere?

[Baseball Paul]

Hi Stefan,
It was not checked but "allow background saves" was as well as "Embed
linguistic data" any other suggestions based on that?
Word did not crash.

Paul

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

That depends on how you lost the document.

If Word crashed, there should be an AutoRecover file available.

If "Always create backup copy" was selected in Tools | Options (Save
tab) you can open a previous *.wbk version of the file.

If the file was never saved, there is nothing to retrieve.

For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Baseball Paul" wrote in message
...
help! I lost a word document that took 2 hours. can I find it
somewhere?

[Stefan Blom]

The "Allow background saves" option is covered in the article.

"Embed linguistic data" applies to input of handwriting and to speech
recognition; see:

Turn on or off saving handwritten input data
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...851181033.aspx

I suspect you have to retype the document.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Baseball Paul" wrote in message
...
Hi Stefan,
It was not checked but "allow background saves" was as well as
"Embed
linguistic data" any other suggestions based on that?
Word did not crash.

Paul

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

That depends on how you lost the document.

If Word crashed, there should be an AutoRecover file available.

If "Always create backup copy" was selected in Tools | Options
(Save
tab) you can open a previous *.wbk version of the file.

If the file was never saved, there is nothing to retrieve.

For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Baseball Paul" wrote in message
...
help! I lost a word document that took 2 hours. can I find it
somewhere?