But what you reported it was not that you deleted it, but that you
Replaced it (with Track Changes on).
On May 4, 11:57*pm, nik <n...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> 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" wrote:
> > 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"?
>
> > On May 4, 2:38 pm, nik <n...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > 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 worthof work
> > > :-(
> > > I'm pretty sure that I'm completely stuffed here, but I'll be happy to be
> > > shown otherwise...
>
> > > "grammatim" wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> > > > On May 4, 11:07 am, nik <n...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > > > 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 thedocument
> > > > > (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--
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