I closed a document I was working on without saving it. How can I retrieve it back?
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I closed a document I was working on without saving it. How can I retrieve it back?
You can use the Restore previous versions command in Windows Explorer. To do this, go to the folder where the Word document was, go up one folder, right-click on the folder, select Restore Previous Versions. You can choose the latest version or an earlier one, open it, and see if the version of the Word document is the most recent. You most likely will have lost some work but it’s better than nothing. To prevent this from happening in future, it’s a good idea to set up the Autosave feature in Word to save your document every 10 minutes or so.
It depends on what happened to the document in the first place, and what has since been done with Word and the computer.
If you powered down without closing Word, the program will have saved the document in the “recovered documents” folder, and will offer those files the next time you open Word. In that case, you’ll only lose any work done after the last autosave, which is two minutes by default. If you closed Word and hit “no” when it asked if you wanted to save any unsaved work, the file is gone.