Help!

P

Prandstatter

Working on a document today I finished and saved it. Then I went back to the
document and deleted some of the text amending it for my new task I was
working on. I wanted to keep some text from the original text in my new
document.

Then without thinking I hit the save button instead of the save as button!
Now I have lost the first document! Is there anyway to retrieve my lost data?
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

If the document is still open, use Undo to recover the deleted text.

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

Prandstatter

So just to clarify... If I still had the document open I could undo back to
the original document. Even though I had saved?!

Definitely useful for the next time. Thanks.
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Prandstatter


JoAnn Paules said:
If you have closed that file, no.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


Prandstatter said:
Working on a document today I finished and saved it. Then I went back to
the
document and deleted some of the text amending it for my new task I was
working on. I wanted to keep some text from the original text in my new
document.

Then without thinking I hit the save button instead of the save as button!
Now I have lost the first document! Is there anyway to retrieve my lost
data?
 
J

JoAnn Paules

Generally yes. (I'm hesitant to say that will *always* work, but it's worked
everytime I screwed up and hit save instead of save as.)

Once you hit that wrong key, do a save as and change the name, then undo,
undo, undo as much as you need. Then save as the OLD name again. :)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


Prandstatter said:
So just to clarify... If I still had the document open I could undo back
to
the original document. Even though I had saved?!

Definitely useful for the next time. Thanks.
--
Prandstatter


JoAnn Paules said:
If you have closed that file, no.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


Prandstatter said:
Working on a document today I finished and saved it. Then I went back
to
the
document and deleted some of the text amending it for my new task I was
working on. I wanted to keep some text from the original text in my
new
document.

Then without thinking I hit the save button instead of the save as
button!
Now I have lost the first document! Is there anyway to retrieve my
lost
data?
 
C

checkitout

Prandstatter;428721 said:
Working on a document today I finished and saved it. Then I went bac
to the
document and deleted some of the text amending it for my new task I wa

working on. I wanted to keep some text from the original text in m
new
document.

Then without thinking I hit the save button instead of the save a
button!
Now I have lost the first document! Is there anyway to retrieve m
lost data?

that happens to me before..always be reminded to save before closin
your documents that you have worked on..for faster way of saving i
just press ctrl+s then its done.
 

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