Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and changed
some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2. I have done this
before without any problem, but I think I clicked save before save as. Now I
have Document #1 and #2 with the same content, the changed version.

I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I could
find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the original document
without doing a system restore, which of course would cause me to lose other
material?

All ideas are appreciated. I'm running MS Windows XP Home.

Annmef1 wrote:
> Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
> changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2.
> I have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked
> save before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same
> content, the changed version.
> I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
> could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
> original document without doing a system restore, which of course
> would cause me to lose other material?
>
> All ideas are appreciated. I'm running MS Windows XP Home.

Not really. It's likely lost forever.
Perhaps - if you do this often - something like "Executive Software's
Undelete" would be a good product to purchase/install/use.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

try doing a search on google under data recovery or file recovery or
file recovery after reformat


there are prgram that can find format or deleteed file
i know i use one as i format my hard drive the wrong one, and post a
question on this forum, but does look like i will get a answer to it

Recover My Files Recover My files Hard Drive Data Recovery Software.
Download Recover My Files Data Recovery Software to Recover Deleted Files.
www.recovermyfiles.com/ -
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not say how good it is, but it did find files on my formated hard
drive even after windo try to write to it and i did to



"Shenan Stanley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Annmef1 wrote:
>> Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
>> changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2.
>> I have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked
>> save before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same
>> content, the changed version.
>> I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
>> could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
>> original document without doing a system restore, which of course
>> would cause me to lose other material?
>>
>> All ideas are appreciated. I'm running MS Windows XP Home.
>
> Not really. It's likely lost forever.
> Perhaps - if you do this often - something like "Executive Software's
> Undelete" would be a good product to purchase/install/use.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

You could allways try Start>run and type %temp% to see if you have a
old copy stored in there somewhere. Most likley not

--
rootj4m13

Annmef1 wrote:

> Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
> changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2. I
> have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked save
> before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same content,
> the changed version.
> I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
> could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
> original document without doing a system restore, which of course
> would cause me to lose other material?



Sorry, but no. Not only can you not recover it without using System Restore,
you can't recover it even *with* System Restore.

System Restore restores the operating system. It is not a backup tool, and
does nothing to restore your data.


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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Well, I thought that might be the case. Thanks everyone for responding.

"Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Annmef1 wrote:
>
>> Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
>> changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2. I
>> have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked save
>> before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same content,
>> the changed version.
>> I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
>> could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
>> original document without doing a system restore, which of course
>> would cause me to lose other material?
>
>
>
> Sorry, but no. Not only can you not recover it without using System
> Restore, you can't recover it even *with* System Restore.
>
> System Restore restores the operating system. It is not a backup tool, and
> does nothing to restore your data.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>

Annmef1 wrote:

> Well, I thought that might be the case. Thanks everyone for
> responding.



You're welcome. Sorry we couldn't be more help.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


> "Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Annmef1 wrote:
>>
>>> Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
>>> changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2.
>>> I have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked
>>> save before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same
>>> content, the changed version.
>>> I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
>>> could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
>>> original document without doing a system restore, which of course
>>> would cause me to lose other material?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, but no. Not only can you not recover it without using System
>> Restore, you can't recover it even *with* System Restore.
>>
>> System Restore restores the operating system. It is not a backup
>> tool, and does nothing to restore your data.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup