WORD 2007, Saved over file that I need bad

[dustin]

I recently was working in word 2007 typing a document that was saved as word
2003. I had this file saved multiple times under Drug Reactions (I'm in
medical school not a druggie). When I move onto new documents I usually just
hit select all (contol A) and delete everything from the document so I can
start a new document using a word 2003 document b/c of other people not being
able to open a 2007 document. I again usually do this type a couple lines
and hit save as and rename the document. This time I forgot to hit save as
and save the new document under a new file name. When I was done I
accidentally hit save and it saved over my old document under the old
documents file name. Is there any way to recover the old document, a temp
file, undo the save, or revert the document back? THanks in advance for any
help

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the document is still open, use Undo to undo all the actions back to the
point where you opened the document. Resave under the original filename,
then Redo all the actions and Save As.

 

[dustin]

Shoot I closed it to try and see if when I opened word if it would show a
recovery option. So am I basically screwed at this point?

thanks for the reply

 

[Wil Roberts]

On 2008-01-14 21:33:01 -0600, dustin <[email protected]> said:

Yes. Screwed, unless you were using automatic backup. Something you can
do to prevent this in the future is make a VBA macro to "save a copy"
as opposed to "save as". This will make a copy of the document using a
new name. The folks in one of the microsoft.public.word.vba.* groups
may be able to help you with this. I used to do this when working with
lots of new documents, but have not done it in several years, and don't
remember the details.