In the Microsoft Word program, important documents are often created - educational, work and other files, the loss of which can seriously harm the user's activities. However, sometimes unsaved documents are lost after an unexpected power outage, computer failure, program error, and other events - in which case the document must be recovered. There are several easy ways to recover documents in Microsoft Word.
Instructions
Step 1
If you are working with a text file that is stored on a removable device, enable automatic creation of a local copy of a document that is in remote mode and is saved, accordingly, also in remote mode. To do this, open the main Word menu and open the Word Options item.
Step 2
Select the "Advanced" tab and find the "Save" section. Check the box next to the line “Copy deleted files to this computer and update them on saving”.
Step 3
If your file is located on a hard drive, and not on the network or on removable media, you can configure the program so that it saves backups in automatic mode. If you accidentally turn off your computer or the program crashes, it will automatically restore the document from the backup.
Step 4
To set up automatic saving, open the main Word menu and then open the Word Options section. As in the above case, find the "Save" section in the "Advanced" tab and check the box next to the "Always create a backup copy" line if it is still not there.
Step 5
To open the backup copy if it did not open automatically, select the "File" -> "Open" section, and then in the "Files of type" window set the value "All files". The folder where your document is located contains its backups, which are saved in the wbk format. Customize the display of the folder in the form of a table and select the desired file from the type "Saved copy of Word".
Step 6
If the file is damaged, when it is impossible to open it in the usual way, use the recovery function - start the program and in the File menu select the Open option, and then in the explorer click on the required document. To the right of the open button, click the arrow and select the "Open and Restore" subcategory. Hit Enter.
Step 7
You can also open the damaged file with another program - for example, in HTML or txt format. In this case, all formatting will be lost, but the text itself will be preserved.
