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How to recover an unsaved Word document

In the updated version of office Suite Microsoft Office 2010 has a large number of innovations. For example, the problem of recovery of unsaved documents were throughout the history of this software. In this version, according to developers, this defect was eliminated.

You will need

Software Microsoft Office Word 2010.

Instruction

In the new version of MS Word document recovery is much easier to perform than in other versions. In the program settings, it is sufficient to set the optimum values depends on how large the number of characters you create documents.

Click menu "tools" in the main window, click Settings. In the opened window go to the tab "Maintenance" and activate (check the check boxes of these items), two options of "save AutoRecover information every" and "Save automatically the latest version." Opposite the first option you will see a drop-down list, click on the triangle icon and select an interval (the optimal number of minutes) after which will be automatically saved.

When you select the number of minutes it is recommended to put the minimum value if you spend on the computer a large amount of time, in other cases it is enough for 5 minutes (default is 10). Click "OK" to the changes were saved. Now any file that is closed without saving would be in advance stored in the temporary folder.

To restore the copy after closing the program without saving the document, you need to run MS Word. In the main program window, navigate to the "File" tab and select "Recent files". Then use the link "Recover unsaved documents".

In the opened window select the desired file and click "Open". Then click "Save as" to save this draft on the hard drive of your computer.

To quickly find a lost file it is not necessary to run the program, simply open the folder where such documents. For the operating system Windows XP account folder\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Unsaved Files for operating systems the latest versions of the account folder\ AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles.

Note

First method: restoring a document using the standard facilities of MS OFFICE. For this you will need to open Word and follow through: File – open. Next on the open button you need to click on the arrow, thereby causing a menu where select open and repair.

Useful advice

Not to forget that Microsoft office Word is enough powerful tools to recover information from the damaged file. You can recover text from the damaged Word file in two ways So if the Word document contains, for example, that “Open and repair” will attempt to recover the text and photo. However, if the damage in the file in the field of photography, and some text may be lost.