How to find and recover a lost Microsoft Word document Your email has been sent If you are trying to track down a missing Word document, these tips and tricks might be helpful. You’ve been working on ...

Microsoft Word has become the go-to tool for crafting documents of all kinds with millions of users worldwide. But what happens when the unexpected occurs, and your system crashes, leaving your ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

Have you edited a Word document that was opened directly from a mail message (mail box) and you forgot to perform a Save As at the end so you can't find your work? Don't worry, all is not lost. This ...

When you run a Microsoft Office program such as Word after forgetting to save a document, the program automatically lists autosaved files in the Recovery pane. Once you close this pane, the list ...

Nobody likes losing a document, especially if they've invested a great deal of time and effort in its creation. If your company has a Mac computer running Microsoft Word 2008, the software has an ...

An Editor in Chief at Oxford University Press writes in a tip for capturing unsaved document changes if Microsoft Word freezes: If I'm not sure I have saved recently enough, I take a screen shot ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing Word to delete some Windows users' documents instead of saving them. On affected systems, locally saved files were deleted after saving because of ...

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