How can the answer be improved?
After toiling on a report for hours, you close Word and realize that you forgot to save the file. Perhaps you opened a document intended to be used as a template; you made a few changes and then saved the file, overwriting your template in the process. Before you spend time recreating a Word document from scratch, you can try to recover the previous version of the file.
Start Microsoft Office and click on the 'File' tab. Select 'Recent' in the left pane.
2.Click 'Recover Unsaved Documents' on the lower right side of the window. The Unsaved Files folder opens.
3.Select the file you want to restore and click 'Open.' The document opens with a Recovered Unsaved File bar across the top.
4.Click the 'Save As' button and save the file with a new name in a safe location, such as your desktop or Documents folder.
Open the Word file that you saved and now want to restore to its previous condition.
3.Select the version you want to open in the Versions list. Click the 'Restore' button when the file opens.
Tricia Goss' credits include Fitness Plus, Good News Tucson and Layover Magazine. She is certified in Microsoft application and served as the newsletter editor for OfficeUsers.org. She has also contributed to The Dollar Stretcher, Life Tips and Childcare Magazine.