Cancelled article by mistake. How can I get it back?

[Chris1934]

I 'blacked out' a page of an article I typed in My Documents thinking I would
be making an attachment of it and by mistake hit the spacer key and lost it
all. Is it possible to get it back if I've done that?

 

[Daddy]

Once you save the document, the answer is: no, unfortunately.

In future, as soon as you do something like that, press CTRL+Z to undo the
change. Or simply close the document and when asked whether you want to save
changes, answer in the negative.

Daddy

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Do you mean you highlighted the entire text then hit the space key? If so,
and you do not have a back up copy, you're out of luck.

 

[db]

it sounds like you had blocked
the sentences then you click the
space bar which replaced the
items with a "space"

I do the same mistake on occasion
when I inadvertently hit any key
when I have blocked items.

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if the article was still opened
then you could "undue" the change.

but if you saved the article after
you changed it, then it also saved
the change you made.

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however, if your word is setup to
make auto backup documents,

then you might have a backup of
the file.

look in the original folder for
that file and see if you have any
..wbk files or filenames with the
word "Backup" in them.


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