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[Danny Baldwin]

Does anyone know if you can recover a document you don't save? I had a two page review typed up on Spider-Man 2 and, being the klutz that I am, dropped my mouse onto the escape key on my keyboard and pressed enter thinking I was choosing to cancel, instead of not save, and it was erased. I can't find anything in the Microsoft Word help index, but seeing that you all use computers a lot, I thought you might know if it was possible.
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Danny Baldwin

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[Michael Scrutchin]

Damn, that sucks.

Word v.X for Mac has an AutoRecover feature. The only time I've seen it in action is when there was a power failure; I powered back up, opened Word, and it automatically recovered the document for me. I don't think it works for documents you manually choose not to save (even if by accident). I suppose you didn't have Word set to save backup copies at set intervals -- something to consider setting while you're thinking about it. I haven't used Windows in ages (you're still running Windows, eh?), so I wouldn't know how to go about it, but try searching your PC for the file name (maybe a backup copy was saved) or some bit of text from the document, if possible. Otherwise, I don't know what to tell ya.

Good luck on recovering it.
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Michael Scrutchin
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[Danny Baldwin]

Yeah, I called into customer service and it looks like you can only do it if it was saved one shut-down ago, unfortunately. I guess I'll just have to crank it out again.
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