02.23.07
Word Document Recovery
Here is a walkthrough for recovering a lost document in word, however if no documents appear in the Document Recovery task pane than you will be unable to recover your document.
Review the files listed in the Document Recovery task pane (task pane: A window within an Office application that provides commonly used commands. Its location and small size allow you to use these commands while still working on your files.), and decide which to keep.
If a file has [Recovered] in the title it is usually a file that contains more recent changes than a file with [Original] in the title.
If you want to view what repairs were made to a file, point to the file in the Document Recovery task pane, click the arrow next to the file’s name, and then click Show Repairs.
If you want to review the versions that were recovered, open all of the versions and save the best one.
For each file you want to keep, point to the file in the Document Recovery task pane, click the arrow next to the file’s name, and then do one of the following:
To work with the file, click Open.
To save the file, click Save As, and then enter a name for the file. By default, the file is saved in the same folder as the original file. If you use the same name as the original file, the original is overwritten. When you see a message asking whether you want to replace the existing file (with the changes you made up to the last time you saved the file), click Yes.
When you have opened or saved all of the files you want to keep, click Close in the Document Recovery task pane.