How to recover unsaved Word Documents in Windows?

Word document is one of the most common file types we usually lost. Most of Word document loss situations are caused by accidentally close without saving. Such as you close but unsave it, or the computer power off, shut down or crash. When you turn on the computer again, you will not find your unsaved files. Can we still find back the unsaved word document? What should we do recover the unsaved Word document?

How to recover unsaved Word document in Windows?

To recover the unsaved Word documents, you can open an word document and follow these steps.

First, click the File tab on the left side corner, click Info on the left side. On the right side, you can Find Manage Document button.

Second, click the Manage Document button, and click the arrow near it to choose Recover Unsaved Documents from the drop down list. Then in the dialog box opens, it will list all the unsaved word document here. You can select the Word document which you need and click the open button open it.

Third, in the recovered file opens, you can see a line and Save as button, click this button to save your word document.

How to recover recently changed Word documents?

Another common situation is that you closed the document but forgot or fail to save the latest changes. In that case, you have chance to recover your unsaved changes by Word’s default saving features. You can find the temporary recovery copies in Manage Document and save the recovered Word document. You can change the auto save frequency.

How to change the autorecover time?

The default time for autorecover is 10 minutes, you can customize the time and location to save your Word document automatically.

Go to File tab>Options>Save, on the right side, you can customize the save options. You can set the save formats, save frequency, and check the option of Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving.

Therefore, to make your word document recovery possible, you should enable the autorecover feature in Word. And save your files in time, back up your important document to other safe devices will help you to reduce lots of document loss. Prevent of data loss is always useful than to recover them. However, in case you have data loss and cannot recover from the Windows, you should use the data recovery software as soon as possible.

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