I deleted text that I made tracked changes to. Are tracked changes

[nik]

So I was typing away quickly. Too quickly for my own good, it might appear.
I was editing (as in, I'm an editor) a large text. I'd nearly finished. All
of sudden Word (2007) closed.
When i reopened the file i found that all the text (16,000 words...) had
been deleted. I had edited nearly all of it using track changes.
What I reckon happened was that I hadn't released the ctrl key from when i'd
been moving the cursor around and I accidentally selected all, typed
something else (thus replacing it all), then saved and closed the document
(by holding ctrl and slipping from S to W).
It looks to me like if i reject the deletion (of the whole text) then I lose
all the changes I made to the original text. This is hours and hours of work.
I can't see a temp file that I can restore from or anything.
Might there be any way of restoring the document to a state it was at at a
specific point in time? Before I accidentally deleted everything, saved the
document and then closed it?
Please let there be a way of rescuing my work!
Nik

 

[grammatim]

I _think_ that what you'll get if you Reject your last Change is the
final edited version of your text (just without a record of the
additions and deletions). (Does it still have a file size that isn't 0
or close to zero?)

Open the document, don't touch anything, Save As a different name, and
see what happens when you Reject the last change.

 

[nik]

I do have a file that is 0, and if i reject the final change I get the
document, though without all the changes i made to it (10 hours worth of work
:-(
I'm pretty sure that I'm completely stuffed here, but I'll be happy to be
shown otherwise...

 

[grammatim]

Hmm, how can it have a file size of 0 yet still retain all the
original text? One other possibility: is it by any chance showing
"Original" rather than "Final"?

 

[nik]

Nope. When you delete text with tracked changes, you delete the tracked
changes too. When you reject the tracked change (of deleting the text) you do
not get back the text with your tracked changes, rather the original text.
I think there's nothing to do here.

 

[grammatim]

But what you reported it was not that you deleted it, but that you
Replaced it (with Track Changes on).