How do I recover a Microsoft Word Document?

Oh no….I hope pd has an answer for you…..

Word usually saves a copy, but deletes it when you save the final. I would say, don’t write to the disk, and download a copy of Recuvah. It’s free and it works. Just don’t save it to the disk that has the file you want.

@pdworkin
I just tried Recuva. It didn’t work. I think its because the file was never in the recycling bin, I just clicked “overwrite”.

Curious…why would you need a special program to get something out of the recycle bin?

I hope someone can help. I wonder if it’s possible that all the copies are hanging out somewhere in your hard drive and a tech could recover it….maybe.

Don’t look in the bin. Look in your default working directory. or even let it search the whole drive you were using before you made the mistaken save.

The file I copied was located on my desktop. The file I overwrote and want to recover was on my USB drive (L:). I’m doing a deep scan now of L: now.

No luck. I found a “_WRD0004.tmp” file but upon opening it found that it was the same document I currently had open. Looks like I better start writing.

I’m really sorry. What a drag. Look in your Word options. I think there’s one where you can force it to always save a backup.

Or maybe temp files?