[dba-Tech] WORD:Retreiving lost documents

When one chooses "no" Word deletes the temporary file it created for the 
working document.  The presumption is that if you say "no" you mean 
"no."  Too bad it wasn't just a sudden power out, because then Word 
would have announced the "recovered" document upon next launch.
Tina

Francisco H Tapia wrote:

> Thanks,
>  Unfortunatly for my co-worker he never once clicked save once... and 
> thus his lesson is gonna be learned HARD and HARD.  This is one of 
> those lessons' that once it's happend to you, you tend to become 
> extremly anal about saving and having backups.
>
> in word (according to the help) if you hit save at least once you 
> invoke auto-save. wich will create an .asd file in the application 
> data\word directory and allow you to auto-retreive the file should for 
> whatever reason have a crash.  I don't know what happens when a person 
> purposely hits "NO" in the "do you want to save" prompt.
>
> :| oh well ...
>
> MartyConnelly said the following on 5/5/2004 2:19 PM:
>
>> Word has NOT had an AutoSave function for a long time.
>> See this site for tips.
>>
>> http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm.
>>
>> Enter the name of the file, with the extension "BAK". It maybe there.
>> or there maybe an AutoRecover Save.asd file
>>
>> Francisco H Tapia wrote:
>>
>>> I'm far from being an "AVID" word user.  but a co-worker here was 
>>> working on a document for over 3hrs and closed his application down 
>>> (normally) and somehow he didn't hit save, possibly closing down 
>>> many other documents at at time.  Is there anyway to revive this 
>>> "lost" information?
>>>
>>> I know the lesson here, but ... :| it won't help my friend out. 
>>> tips, links sites are all welcomed.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>
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