Word Recovery

How to Recover Word Documents When Accident Happens

It is certainly a painful experience that everyone who lost their important Word documents knows. To avoid such accidents, you need to educate yourself and prepare in advance to set your PC to save your work automatically or create Word documents backups. If the worst indeed happened, you still have some word recovery solutions to recover Word document.

Problem 1: My computer crashed.

When you are concentrating on editing your Word document, one problem that startles you happens. Your laptop with a Windows operating system running acts up. That is really a nightmare if you haven't saved your document yet. The good news is that Micro Word program saves your document every 10 minutes by default. Therefore, you can recover the work you created 10 minutes ago. You are suggested to set the automatic save every minute word recoveryor two, because you can type a lot of information within 10 minutes.

Steps on how to auto save Word document for further Word document recovery and to prevent word file loss:
1. Click the "Microsoft Office Button", and then click "Word Options".
2. Click "Save".
3. Select the "Save AutoRecover information every x minutes" check box.
4. In the minutes list, specify how often you want the program to save your data and the program state.
5. Optionally, you can change the location (specified in the "AutoRecover file location" box) where the program automatically saves a version of files you work on.

Problem 2: I deleted a Word document.

Our fingers often act before our brain warms up. You delete your Word document without thinking too much. If you just delete it from your hard disk, it is easy for you to go to "Recycle Bin" to recover it: double click your deleted Word document and accept the option to "Restore". What if you press "Shift+ Del" keys or emptied the "Recycle Bin" after you deleted it? Of you are editing a document saved on a USB flash drive or an external hard drive, it's exactly the same situation as on computer hard disk drive. You have to use the third party Word Document Recovery software to Recover Word document. Tenorshare Data Recovery is by far the most effective yet easy-to-operate utility I have tested. It empowers you to recover DOC, DOCX document without any difficulty.

Follow the step-by-step directions to learn how it works:
Step 1: Download this Word File Recovery tool, simply double click to setup and install it.
Step 2: Click "Deleted Recovery", and choose the partition where you lost Word files located.
Step 3: Click "Scan" to search the files you may need to recover. Then a window-explorer-like interface appears. Choose the folder in the left column and tick the certain Word files in the right one.
Step 4: Click "Recover" and select the path for saving recovered files.
Step 5: Follow the wizard to finish word file recovery.

Tips to avoid document loss:

1.Send yourself a copy by sending Email attachment every time you updated if you create a long work.
2. Copy your work to your hard drive as well as external drive.
3. Use Word Recovery when you tried every possible solution. It'll permanently solve your problems.


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