Re: Recover overwritten parts of word document (that is maybe still hidden in word file)

From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:59:41 -0600

He has one hope. If he has enabled "Automatically create backup copy," then
he should look for the backup file. In WinWord, this is called "Backup of
<filename>.wbk"; I'm not sure what that would be in MacWord terms. This will
be the immediately previous version of the file. He can open that, save it
under a new filename, then paste in the text he added to the file. 

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Balthasar Glättli" <mip@glaettli.ch> wrote in message
news:etCWHUu8DHA.2168@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi everybody
>
> a friend of mine using Mac OS X, Word v. X has a serious problem. He seems
> to have overwritten some 20 pages of important data in a word file by
> accidently hitting Control A (Mark all) and delete. He did not notice this
> until having typed another page of text, continously hitting control S
> (seems that he has not configured auto save). He panicked, closed the file
> and reopened it. Obviously, still only the last page is visible. Word has
> not been closed as a program.
>
> My question:
> 1. is there any possibility to find the lost part of the text? Maybe
hidden
> in the document? Maybe in a Recovery file? I Remember that I always warned
> people that old part of documents can remain in a doc... however I know
this
> from old Win-Word files, this might have been changed in between.
>
> What I did already:
> I told him not to close word. I let him search for "Word Work*" files on
the
> disk (following a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article): no file found.
>
> Please answer with a copy to my email too.
>
> TNX
> Balthasar Glättli
> mip at glaettli dot ch
>
>

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