Restoring lost input data (word doc)

[BecksB]

My boss has been working on a Microsoft Word document for the past 5 days.
She saved the document regularly. She opened the document today, worked for
about 3 hours, saved it and when she re-opened the document it was empty..
Completely blank!! I have looked in the recent folder/my documents/searched
for any other saved copies but they all come back blank. Is there anyway I
can retrieve the work she has done, or restore the document back to this
morning because it was fine then. I’m really at a loss to how to retrieve the
information she’s typed up.
I would appreciate any help or advice and thank you for your time reading
this. BTW, my appraisal is on 20th March

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If your boss has "Always create backup copy" enabled (Tools | Options |
Save), there's a chance of finding a "Copy of <filename>.wbk" copy of the
previous version. Otherwise, I suspect she's SOL. Did she perhaps open the
doc from an email attachment?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Guest]

What size is this completely blank document?

 

[BecksB]

Hello Susanne.. thanks for the reply. I did a search for *.wbk but nothing
came up. I suspect she saved the original copy as she worked on it. I will
check again on Monday but I've got a horrible idea that the data has been
lost or she's saved the blank version. She downloaded the original template
from a secure website and worked on it from the saved location (my documents).

I was surprised to see she didn't have any up to date virus protection, so
I'm going to install that on Monday and see if I can retrieve the lost data.
I'm not holding much hope though.

 

[BecksB]

Hello Terry and thanks for replying. I haven't got access to the document
until Monday so I'm sorry but I haven't got that information at the moment.