Previously saved document recovery

[Guest]

When I went to edit a word document, I errantly clicked "save" instead of "save as" and replaced the original document which I did not want to do. Is there any way to retrieve the original now that it's been written and saved over? Thanks in advance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have "Always create backup copy" enabled on the Save tab of Tools |
Options, then look for the previous version as "Backup of <filename>.wbk" in
the same folder (you'll have to display All Files to see it).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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When I went to edit a word document, I errantly clicked "save" instead of

"save as" and replaced the original document which I did not want to do. Is
there any way to retrieve the original now that it's been written and saved
over? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Thanks! I'll give that a try and get back to you!

 

[Guest]

Whoa is me - I (sadly) did not have the box checked (do now, though!). I'll probably purchase
software program that restores lost files (http://www.recovermyfiles.com/). Any comments about this program?