After I spent an hour working on a Word document, I had a power failure and the computer closed down. But when I got it running again and opened the file, all my new work was missing. I don’t get it.

Hi there. Our shop doesn't handle Mac work all that often, but sometimes questions come our way, and I have a sort of weird one.<BR><BR>A customer uses Word for Mac extensively (latest version, so far ...

Word 2007 periodically records your edits in a file separate from your main saved file. If you exit Word without saving your file, Word opens this AutoRecover file when you next launch the program. If ...

It might not be Word's most often-discussed or attention-grabbing feature, but if you've ever forgotten to save an important document like a draft contract or a memo to a client, Word's autosave ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

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