I don't suppose you still have that document open? If you haven't closed it, you can try doing multiple Undos until you can't do it any more. Then save
it as the original name.
If you have closed it, you're pretty much SOL.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
"meth" <meth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:jc0ur15nncedgau07mlvappng0fpv5na1v@xxxxxxxxxx > I'm running Word 2003. I made a mistake. I created my first document
> and saved it. My second file uses the same format so I just edit on
> the first file. But I forget to give a different name when saving.
> Now is there any way to get the first file back?
>
> I see there are a bunch of *.tmp file on the directory I saved the
> file. Anyway to open them up and see if I can get something back?
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