If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

After toiling on a report for hours, you close Word and realize that you forgot to save the file. Perhaps you opened a document intended to be used as a template; you made a few changes and then saved ...

Temporary files may allow you to recover an unsaved Word document. Multiple recovery methods exist, but no one method is guaranteed to work in every situation. To prevent losing your work, you can ...

Q. I’ve lost all my task bars in Microsoft Word. The program works fine if you know all the keyboard commands. I’ve uninstalled it and then reloaded it twice, to no avail. I have a suspicion the ...

Few computer-related disasters can drain the color from your face quicker than losing a document you’ve been busily working on. Whether your Mac crashed, froze, you forgot to save, or you accidentally ...

May 20, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The Workers' Edge blog points out that a macro written by Dave Rado back in the days of Word 97 to back up and ...