Re: RECOVERING DOCUMENT

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From: Bill Foley (pttincnospam_at_itexas.net)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:36:03 -0600

What you are looking for are the autosave files that stay on your computer
if it locks up with Word open. These files are saved every 10 minutes
(usual setting). When you close Word normally, these files go away because
Word thinks you have saved your document. In your case, you saved it, but
over another file. No autorecover files exist in that case. Did you click
"Tools", "Options", then the "Save" TAB and see if "always create backup
copy" is checked? A backup copy is a duplicate of your Word file
(basically). But then again if you think about it, a backup copy of the
wrong file is still no good for you! SORRY!

By the way, which version of Word do you have? 

-- 
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
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"chohbe" <nmalling@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:b95601c3ec4e$f62c52d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Unless you are set to make autobackups (Tools, Options,
> Save TAB, "Always
> >create backup copy"), it is lost.  SORRY!
> >
> >-- 
> >Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
> >www.pttinc.com
> >Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
> >"Success, something you measure when you are through
> succeeding."
> >
> >"chohbe" <nmalling@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> >news:aa4f01c3ec49$5ca6f840$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> How do I recover a document that I accidently saved
> >> another document over?  In other words I
> >> saved "docuB.doc" as "docuA.doc" and now need to
> >> recover "docuA.doc".   How can this be done????
> >
> >
> >.
> >I do have autobackups on.  I followed the instructions
> in the knowledge base as to how to recover an autobackup
> and still no luck.  Is there a trick to re-opening or
> recovering these autobackups?  I used article 827099.

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