I overwrote a document, anyway to retrieve original?

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My wife was working on a large document in MS Word 2002 and accidently
overwrote the file with a smaller version of the document. Is there any way
to recover the earlier version?
 
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Not unless under Tools> Options > Save you have checked "Always create backup
copy".
 

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