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Recover unsaved documents in Word [ Office 2010 ]

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April
23
2010
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Many a times it so happens that you accidentally loose a document which you had been editing because of sudden machine failure or shutdown. Now, There is a cool feature in Microsoft Office Word 2010 which allows you to recover unsaved document.

Update : This is possible in all the office products. You will have to navigate to Info > Manage Versions.

Recover Unsaved Documents in Word

To clear your doubt there is a direct menu for that but instead you will have to got to Back Stage and select Info > Manage Versions  > Recover unsaved documents. If you are editing a document which has some recoverable document, it shows up right next to Manage versions else, it just says that there are not previous versions of this file.

Find unsaved document in Word 2010

This is possible because Office documents are backed up as you edit and are available in your Roaming Profile of Windows, in .asd format. The feature makes use of this feature to recover and give you option to recover documents.

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Ashish Mohta

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  • chrissy

    my document was saved but somehow disapeared. I check my temp files and roaming I spent an hour on the phonewith microsoft (as the tookovermy computer) and no one knowshow orwhythis happened so I can’t be sure it won’t happen again. Any idea? PS if you know how to find the paper I wrote I would really appreciate the insight.

  • Bill

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    It worked perfect.
    You don’t know how much time and effort that saved me.

    Thanks again,
    Bill

  • Lopez – Columbus, OH

    Thank you so much! This was extraordinarily helpful and saved me almost 2 hours of re-work!

  • Theresa 228

    Tried following your advice but I edited a document that I’d downloaded and opened (not saved) from my hotmail. I saved as I went along but never did a save as and wasn’t prompted to save when I closed the document, is there anything I can do to retrieve this work?

  • rhonda shapiro

    i am trying to locate and retrieve a doc i was typing in word ’10. while i was typing a message popped up and kept asking me if i wanted to save the doc 3 times. i said yes then it asked me if i wanted to stay on the page, i said yes. Next thing i knew, the doc disappeared.
    i was advised to look under recent documents, and i did; however i am only getting a limited number of docs and i think i need to see more docs. how can i get additional recent docs??

  • http://www.facebook.com/libby.syddall Libby Syddall

    Its amazing, it worked, your advice has saved me hours! Thank you so much!

  • courtnie

    i cannot find my document anywhere, including there. I created it about 12 hours ago. I remember trying to save it as something, but it had a comma, so it said i couldn’t save it as that. I don’t remember what I did next. I do know that I spent hours on it and clicked save several times. I shut down my computer when I was finished. it’s not showing in that location you mention or in temp files. I did a computer search of my last name, which is in the document 3 times, including the first line. If it helps, I did a mail merge thing in the document. oddly, i can find the name/address file that i saved for mail merge feature.. I have word 2010 starter on windows 7. please help.

  • Wael Saad

    Thanks a lot Ashish, that was really helpful