Recover Unsaved Documents

Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all have a new feature that saves documents that you’ve neglected to save when you closed them—including documents that you haven’t even bothered to save with a name more specific than “Document1.”

This feature builds on Office’s long-standing autosave feature, which automatically backs up the current version of your document every ten minutes (or whatever interval you set in the app’s options).

Earlier versions of Office deleted the last of these automated backups when you closed a document, but Office 2010 preserves the last automated backup and lets you open it.

Click File – Recent – Recover Unsaved Documents, and then choose the document from a standard File/Open dialog box.

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