Few computer-related disasters can quickly drain the color from your face quicker than losing a document you’ve been busily working on. Whether your Mac crashed or froze, you forgot to save, or you accidentally clicked on delete, all might not be lost. We’ll show you how you can recover that vanished Word document.
If everything is working as it should, then it’s quite hard to lose a file in Word. Word has an autosave feature that means that in the event of an accident, you should still have the bulk of your work, except for the last ten minutes. Our top tip would be to save a document as soon as you start working on it to ensure that it autosaves regularly.
But that’s not why you’re here. If you’ve opened Word and can’t find that document you were working on, don’t panic! There is a good chance that you can get your document back. In this article, we’ll run through the various ways you can recover an unsaved or deleted Word document.
HOW TO RECOVER AN UNSAVED WORD DOC
We’ll run through a few scenarios that you might have been confronted with to recover that Word document for you. As we said above, the good news is that Word for Mac has a built-in autosave feature called AutoRecover. This means that Word is quietly saving the document you are working on without you needing to manually tell the software
