Appendix A. Recovering Files and Repairing Word

In this chapter

Recovering Document Files 976

Creating Automatic Backup Copies 979

Dealing with Word Crashes 979

Recovering Document Files

So your computer just crashed, or lost power, and you haven’t saved your work lately. Nearly everyone who has ever used Word has experienced this now and then. It happens. Programs crash. Data gets lost.

However, with Word 2007, not much data typically gets lost because of the very good data-recovery features built in. As in Word 2003, Word saves your work in temporary files every few minutes, and after a crash, it attempts to load those temporary files so you can recover any unsaved changes to your documents. Therefore, the most you are likely to lose is a few ...

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