Lost document when auto update

[benbuilder]

I left a document on the screen but it was not saved. Over night my PC
updated and did an auto restart. When I logged in this morning the document
was not there. Is this lost or has it been saved somewhere?

 

[Stefan Blom]

If the document was never saved there is nothing to recover, so you are
probably out of luck. Note that Word *does not* save documents
automatically. If Word crashed there might be AutoRecover (*.asd) file left
on disk, but the chances are small.

You may want to read these articles:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm.