lost text in word X

[alex]

while editing a word file (in OS X), I cut the text, changed the
documents to two colums, saved the file and re-pasted the text back.
While doing this - or just a bit after - Word quit. I have lost all
the text and can not find it anywhere - including Norton Unerase. The
original file was a few days old, so the text must be somewhere on my
hard drive. Any ideas?

Many thanks, Alex

 

[John McGhie [MVP Office Systems -- Word]]

Hi Alex:

First, the bad news. It's gone forever.

Now the not so bad You can prevent this.

Go to Word>Preferences>Save and enable "Always make backup...". That way,
Word will create a "Backup of..." file each time you save, so that when you
do one of these, you have the backup file to go back to.

With that option turned off, when you saved, you over-wrote the original.

While you have the document open, the text that you cut was written to a
temporary file, but as soon as you closed the document, Word would have
deleted the temporary file (without putting it in the trash).

Sorry


This responds to article <[email protected]>,

while editing a word file (in OS X), I cut the text, changed the
documents to two colums, saved the file and re-pasted the text back.
While doing this - or just a bit after - Word quit. I have lost all
the text and can not find it anywhere - including Norton Unerase. The
original file was a few days old, so the text must be somewhere on my
hard drive. Any ideas?

Many thanks, Alex

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