Microsoft word lost documents

After all the results appear, click the Date Modified header to sort the files by date, starting with the latest ones first. Look for files tagged with the date your document went missing.

Avoid any files with a size of 0KB. Open each potential file in Word to see if you find your lost document Figure H. Be your company's Microsoft insider by reading these Windows and Office tips, tricks, and cheat sheets. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional.

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TasksBoard is the kanban interface for Google Tasks you've been waiting for. Paging Zefram Cochrane: Humans have figured out how to make a warp bubble. If you find any files that have the name "Backup of" followed by the name of the missing file, double-click the file name to open it. If you deleted a Word document without emptying the Recycle Bin, you might be able to restore the document.

If you are using Windows 10, version or later, you can try the Windows File Recovery tool. Windows File Recovery is available from the Microsoft Store.

You can use it to recover files that have been permanently deleted. For more information about this tool, see Recover lost files on Windows For documents that you saved or synced to SharePoint, see Restore items in the recycle bin that were deleted from SharePoint or Teams. For documents that you saved or synced to OneDrive, see Restore deleted files or folders in OneDrive. This file is local, NOT on onedrive. The folder is local too, of course.

The new file I saved when I received the error message was local too. What do I do? I can't find any recovery file anywhere and I lost one day!

But - worse - when I open this file I keep getting the same error message. Hi Stefaniay , There's a chance that the file you are working on or some parts of it is corrupted.

This instance may result in the error message you have received while manually saving it. I'd suggest restoring your document by following the steps below:. If you continue to have this issue even after performing the above steps, please reply to this thread. The system will notify me so I can get back to you and provide you with more answers.

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