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

From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:25:15 +0200

I would have thought that the 'continually using CTRL+S' would have
precluded that as a saviour, but it is certainly worth a look :) 

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> "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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