Recovering a saved over document.

[Guest]

In Word 2002, I accidentally saved over a report I had written with a new
document, under the same name. I had opened up the original report in order
to use similar formatting, but forgot to save the new report under a new name
and saved over the original report. Is there ANY possible way to recover the
original report that was saved over???

 

[garfield-n-odie]

In Word, if the "Always create backup copy" option is checked in Tools |
Options | Save, then the previous version of the document will be saved
with a .wbk filename extension in the same folder as the current version
of the document. If you don't have this option enabled, and if you
don't have a recent backup, then you're probably out of luck. You might
try one of the many available Windows file recovery utilities, although
they seldom work for me.

 

[Guest]

I've found several tmp files, some of which may belong to word, ie
~wrf2983.tmp, within a temp folder. Do these happen to be previous saves?
When I try to open them, all I get is jumbled code. Is there a way to view
the original text?
Thanks

 

[garfield-n-odie]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 "Description of how Word
creates temporary files". Word is supposed to automatically delete the
..tmp files associated with a document when you close that document, so
the only .tmp files you usually find are related to documents that
crashed or that otherwise were not closed normally.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And if the document is still open, you can Undo back to the beginning of
your changes, resave as the original document, then Redo all the changes and
Save As.

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

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