Doc recovery

[TerryR]

Help - an eighty page plus Masters Dissertation is at stake here.
Is it possible to recover a previously saved version of a current Word
document ?
The PC operator at the time said they were typing a word immediately after
manually saving the document and looked at the screen to find all but part
of the word
currently being typed was missing. They made the mistake of saving changes
when exiting.
System - Word 2000 running on Windows 2000Pro with NTFS.

 

[TF]

Here's a bet about what happened. The user hit Control+A instead of
Control+S to perform the save. The result was that Control+A selected the
whole document and the next character pressed replaced the whole document.
Saving then made it permanent. The likelihood of recovering the file without
expert (expensive) disk recovery is zilch.

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

Help - an eighty page plus Masters Dissertation is at stake here.
Is it possible to recover a previously saved version of a current Word
document ?
The PC operator at the time said they were typing a word immediately after
manually saving the document and looked at the screen to find all but part
of the word
currently being typed was missing. They made the mistake of saving changes
when exiting.
System - Word 2000 running on Windows 2000Pro with NTFS.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless you have "Always create backup copy" enabled (Save tab of Tools |
Options), in which case you look for "Backup of <filename>.wbk" in the
document folder (you'll have to display All Files to see it). That will be
the previous version of the doc.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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all may benefit.

 

[Art®]

I found an excellent free tool called Drive Rescue, which you can download
from the following link. It lets you search for deleted files, even when
they have been deleted by programs. It also lets you undelete files you have
deleted from the recycle bin. It's just possible, if you saved the file
several times during its creation, that various versions of the temp files
that Word creates are still on your hard drive, even if deleted from your
temp directory. Sometimes you can find all or part of the data you are
looking for there.

http://home.nexgo.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html

Art