The wrong file got saved over my text; how can I recover original

G

Guest

I'm 50 pages into my novel, or was yesterday. Somehow my outline document
got saved over my text document, so when I open my novel, all that's there is
an outline! There has to be a way to recover my old text from yesterday
afternoon, even though new text was saved over it last night. Can anyone
help?
 
C

CyberTaz

If you did, in fact, save a different file of the same type, with the same
name, in the same location, the original cannot be recovered. You would have
been warned with a prompt as to whether you wanted to do this, so if you
responded with a 'Yes' or 'OK', you passed up your last chance to avoid the
replacement.

OTOH- Is it possible that you simply switched to Outline View in the
original doc? If so, go to View>Print Layout or View>Normal to switch back
to one of those viewing modes.

Good Luck |:>)
 

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