How can I restore a replaced document (ms word)

[Guest]

I made a terrible mistake and wrote over an existing very important document
and i was hoping that someone could assist me or perhaps suggest something?

 

[Guest]

I don't know all the particulars, but I know the first thing is to NOT do
anything ... don't press any keys, etc., until you hear the full
instructions...

 

[Jezebel]

The obvious answer is to restore it from your last backup. If you don't have
a backup, then it was not, in practice, a 'very important document'.

One possible alternative: look in the folder that contains it for a file
called 'backup of ...' If you have 'Always create backup copy' checked, Word
will have created a backup when last you edited the file. But if you've
since opened the new file, the backup will have been overwritten already.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The backup will be the next-to-last version (not the version that was
overwritten), and it will not have been overwritten if the new document has
been opened, only if it's been saved.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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