I'm an idiot, but if someone can help...

H

Holly

Hi,
I made a LOT of changes to a VERY important Word doc
today, then closed it but didn't say "yes" when asked if I
wanted to save the changes.... Duh! Is there ANY way I
can recapture this file in it's changed/updated form?
All replies/advice gratefully received (my kid the whiz
isn't available right now!) Thank you.

Holly
[email protected]
 
T

TF

Holly

Not if you didn't save it in the 'altered' state. There will be nothing
other than the original version unless it was saved.

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

Hi,
I made a LOT of changes to a VERY important Word doc
today, then closed it but didn't say "yes" when asked if I
wanted to save the changes.... Duh! Is there ANY way I
can recapture this file in it's changed/updated form?
All replies/advice gratefully received (my kid the whiz
isn't available right now!) Thank you.

Holly
[email protected]
 
C

Charles Kenyon

Having problems with Word doesn't make you an idiot. It makes you normal.

As for your question: No way to undo this as far as I know.

For future reference, there is a reason that Word asks you if you want to
save your changes. Your default answer should be yes unless you know you
haven't made any changes.
--

Charles Kenyon
See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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R

RWN

FWIW;
My "philosophy" is that you're only an idiot if you don't learn from the
experience.
I was an idiot for quite a while(!) but eventually forced myself into
the habit of clicking the "save" button as I went along.
Nothing fancy, just developed the habit that has saved me from untold
grief.

Unfortunately, when my kids became teenagers, I turned into an idiot
again on all things except this one habit!
 
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Michael Beqq

If you have autorecovery option enabled then go to explorer tools->folder
options->view and choose show hidden files. Then go the folder where this
document is saved and ask to arrange all files by Modified. You would see
some files that are hidden of the date when you modified your file. Check
them out, some of them may contain your file in the form it was last saved
by word automatically even though you have not saved it yourself. I recover
this way files all the time since word likes to crash when you least expect
it to (mininum 6-7 times a day since I work with equation editor).
 
R

RWN

Correct me if I'm wrong (wouldn't be the first time) but;
doesn't "Autorecovery" only work if the app crashes?
 
M

Michael Beqq

I am not a pro but I think that when WORD crashes it restores it from the
autorecovery file that it hides from the user in the same folder as the
original file. I see no reason why one cannot access the same file at any
time as does the system when it tries to restore your file, they are not
encrypted or something (suppose you hard reboot your PC then where do you
think WORD gets the file you worked on?). The only mess up with
autorecovery is that when one has embedded objects in the file then WORD
tries to "fix" those objects into pictures (to me this is the total waste).
It would be great if pro's help us n00bs to clarify the issue.
 
M

Michael Beqq

If so then it is perpahs possible to restore all deteled files within some
time period into a particular folder using File Scavenger or Undelete and
then find the last autorecovery file unless it has already been overwritten
by some data.
 
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