Recovery of a deleted Word Doc

[Rose of Sharon]

I deleted a Word doc by mistake. It is not in the recycle bin. I did not
close out of Word. Can I recover this document?

 

[Terry Farrell]

If you just pressed or clicked on Delete, then the document should be in
your recycle bin. If you pressed Shift+Delete or Shift+Clicked on delete,
then it is probably gone forever. You can try using a utility such as
Undelete, but you need to stop using your computer until you have use such a
utility as it may be overwritten on the hard drive.