Recovering older version

[Stugrad98]

Hi,

I accidentally saved over a version of a document I needed. I went into
"versions" and nothing was there. How can I recover this older version of
the document?

-Stu

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi,

I accidentally saved over a version of a document I needed. I went into
"versions" and nothing was there. How can I recover this older version of
the document?

-Stu

Look for a file named "Backup of xyz.wbk" where the xyz part is the
name of your file. If you're lucky, you had the "Automatically save a
backup" option turned on in Tools > Options > Save. If you didn't save
a backup copy, you can't recover a previous version -- the bits have
vanished.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm for some
advice to avoid the problem in the future.