How to recover Word document
Looseing Word document
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Microsoft Word has an Auto Recovery feature, which keeps its latest version and Office 365 users' documents safe at all times. Microsoft has also added an auto save feature, which allows you to save your Word document while you work. But this is not the end. There are also multiple settings and features that allow you to easily retrieve a lost Word document. Let's take a look at all those methods.
Auto Recover vs. Auto Save: What's the Difference?
Most people confuse auto recovery and auto save mode with Microsoft Word. It is good to know that the two are different and both are used in different cases. Among them, Auto Recovery is an offline feature designed to keep a document safe if something happens. Auto Save, on the other hand, is an online feature that works with OneDrive and can save all your files automatically, just like in the case of Google Docs.
But Auto Save and Auto Recover - both have the same goal. However, AutoSave is more reliable and allows customers to feel secure when working with any Word file at the moment. However, if most of your work is done offline and you want to save your files to the computer, then there are some more effective ways to keep that Word document safe.
Search for a word document
The first thing you need to do is search for a word document. For that select the start option and type the name of the document and press enter. Your Word document will be shown in the search results. Open it by clicking on it. And if that word document doesn't show up in the search results, then follow the next steps.
Search the backup file
Microsoft Word lets users create a backup file of whatever document they work on. That backup file contains the ‘.wbk’ extension. Now if you have the backup copy option enabled in your Word, then you must get a backup copy of that lost document. And if not, enable the backup copy option first. Select the file for that. Then go from Options to Advanced and scroll down to the Save section and finally select the Always Create Backup Copy option.
Backup copies are basically saved in two locations of Windows, take a look to see if that feature is enabled in your Windows.
1) C: \ User \ Update \ Roaming Microsoft \ Word
2) C: \ User \ Update \ Local \ Microsoft \ Office \ UnsavedFiles
Alternatively, select Start and then go to the search bar and type .wbk. This will allow you to find as many .wbk files as you have on your system.
Search Auto Recover Documents
Auto-recovered files can be accessed just like backup files. Go to the Recover section of the Word and look for documents. Now if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription, take a look at the following folder locations for backup files.
1) C: \ User \ Update \ Roaming Microsoft \ Word
2) C: \ User \ Update \ Local \ Microsoft \ Office \ UnsavedFiles
Also, open Word, select the file, go to Info Options and get Recovered Unsaved Documents from Manage Documents.