I need immediate help!

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Alex Sarmiento

I lost a document on Microsoft Word that I have been
working on for months.

I accidentally overwrote the document with something else.
Now I fear that it is lost forever. I can't rewrite it all
because the original document was over one hundred pages
and took me over four months to work on! (It was a
screenplay, by the way.) Has anyone ever experienced this?
If so, is there a way to find the overwritten document? I
am just beside myself with grief, that I may have lost
forever something that I put my heart and soul into.

Any help is most appreciated. Thank you.

By the way, this is my first time here, and I'm not sure
where this topic goes.
 
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Alex

If you overwrote the document, you have probably destroyed it completely.
There are data recovery companies who may be able to recover the data, but
this is expensive and may not be successful (use a company that offers no
recovery - no fee, if you do go that way).

There may be a previous version of the document is you are using the Always
Create Backup Copy option (Tools, Options, Save tab). Had your system
crashed at all, there may have been some temp files abandoned with part or
all of a previous version still around. Search your hard drive and see what
you can find. But because you did this in a controlled method (i.e. you said
Yes to save the document), there is unlikely to be anything.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/


I lost a document on Microsoft Word that I have been
working on for months.

I accidentally overwrote the document with something else.
Now I fear that it is lost forever. I can't rewrite it all
because the original document was over one hundred pages
and took me over four months to work on! (It was a
screenplay, by the way.) Has anyone ever experienced this?
If so, is there a way to find the overwritten document? I
am just beside myself with grief, that I may have lost
forever something that I put my heart and soul into.

Any help is most appreciated. Thank you.

By the way, this is my first time here, and I'm not sure
where this topic goes.
 
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