How to recover a Word document with recovery tools

We use Word documents to write or save information, such as our personal data, paper, and all kind of company files. Save them in the word document, you can easily to read, edit and transfer them. Generally, we transfer them from different computers and all kinds of USB storage devices. We can read them on computer, mobile phone and tablet. As the word files must rely on the storage device, it’s common that the Word document got missing.

There are two ways to recover the lost word document. The first way is to recover with the Windows built-in auto-save feature, and another way is to recover with data recovery software.

How to recover the lost Word document with Microsoft built-in feature?

To recover the Word Document, you should use the Microsoft software. There are several situations of your word document.

If you have enabled the auto-save feature, you can recover from the saved versions.

Open a Word document, you should click the File button at the top left.

In the Info part, you can see three options. In the Versions part, you will see all the saved versions and their saving time.

Then you should click the version you need and open it. In the new window, you can choose to compare the two versions.

After you have confirmed the version, you can choose to restore it.

If you have no saved versions of Word document, you can use the built-in auto-recover feature.

If you forgot to save the document you edit, you can reboot the computer, and open the Word document, you will find the unsaved versions in the AutoRecover file location. Click to check it, if it is the one you need, you can save it and rename it.

How to enable the autosave feature in Microsoft?

In the opened Word document, click File>Options>Save, you can customize how the documents are saved.

Customize the save time interval. Check “Save AutoRecover information every – minutes”, fill in the number you need to set.

Choose the AutoRecover location and default file location.

If your Word documents are deleted by mistake, you can recover them with Hdata recovery software.

How to recover the Word document with data recovery software?

There are six different recovery mode on Hdata recovery software. Depends on your data loss cases, you can choose different recovery mode.

If you delete the Word documents in the recycle bin, you can try the Recovery mode of Emptied recycle bin accidentally. If you deleted them from the hard drive, you should try the modes for hard drive. If you delete the documents in your USB storage device, you can use the recovery mode of Deleted Your files from flash disk.

As long as your word document has not been overwritten, it’s not difficult to recover them. In order to reduce your chance of data loss, you should back up your files regularly and you’d better to enable the Microsoft built-in Autorecover feature.