overwrite error

H

Herb

I clicked "save as" on the wrong document and overwrote
the file. Is there any way to recover it.
 
C

Cindy Meister -WordMVP-

Hi Herb,
I clicked "save as" on the wrong document and overwrote
the file. Is there any way to recover it.
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IF you have "Backup copies" activated in
Tools/Options/Save, then Word should have made a copy of
the file you overwrote. That's really your only realistic
chance.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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