Word 2007 Deleted PhD File

[dsimion]

Regarding VISTA and MS Word 2007 (Office Professional)

I was working on a chapter to my PhD paper - I had been saving all day with
no problems. When I had about 40 pages I saved again and then got an error
stating incompatibility error and then Word went gray for about 2 minutes and
then closed. In recents documents it had the date/time I last saved but when
I tried to open it I received the message that the document was not
available. When I tried to find the document it was gone.

I found "rescued document.txt" on Documents. When I tried to open it is all
in question marks except for 1 sentence.

What happened? Please help - 8 hours of work and thoughts are gone.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Did you try Open and Repair?

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[dsimion]

Where is that located? When I try to open the rescued file I need to choose
which program to read it with but I don't see any Open and Repair - is Repair
someplace else after I open it?

 

[Terry Farrell]

Open Word, Use File Open and select the document, now click the little arrow
connected tot he OPEN button and choose Open & Repair.

 

[dsimion]

Using MS Word 2007 when I open the rescued file there is just Open (no arrow)
but there is one with Open With... since the file was rescued as a txt file.
There is the option to convert for word but none of the options seem to work
- every thing stays as a '?' except for 2 sentences. I have a friend from
Harvard who does help support and he came and checked it out - he said that
Harvard does not support Vista and that he couldn't figure out what happened
to the file. I've already started putting back my thoughts. At his
recommendation I am saving on the computer as well as on my memory stick and
saving nightly backups on changed workd as PDFs.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Rename the rescue file giving it a docx extension. Then open Word and use
File, Open, find the renamed file and then click the little arrow next to
the Open button and choose Open & Repair.

If this fails, it is almost certain the file has been damaged beyond rescue.
Were you saving this to your local hard drive when it happened?

Terry