Word 2007 Docx Missing/Reverted to Old Version - New one missing!

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Ginger

I've been working on this paper in Word 2007 (docx), and today I find that
the file is gone, and is replaced by an older version of the document (from 3
days ago) which means that all the work I've done is gone, without the tables
I spent a full day creating! Its no longer 4300 words but back down to 2800 -
with no tables.

I always save to the hard drive, and at 4000 words I even saved it as a PDF
so I could get my husband to print it off from work before he came home so I
could edit it on a hard copy. This PDF at least has some of the tables (about
1/4th) and for the amount of work I've apparently lost - the PDF is in
between my latest (lost) version, and the draft that I am now stuck with.

Whats strange is that I opened this file last night to read over my tables,
just to read - no changes made. It looked as it should have been. When I
finished reading it, I simply closed it. And this afternoon its back to the
draft.

I've run through the file locator tricks from the MSN site on recovering
lost files, but the file I need is gone. I've run through the System Restore
and brought the computer back to the state it was in yesterday, and even the
day before, but the file still shows up as the draft.

How can it be that I work on this document, consistantly save my changes,
even save it as a PDF mid way, can read through it last night - what it
should still be today, did not save it under a different file name - and not
be able to find it at all today?

I read through Ed's post earlier on his lost docx and feel the same thing
sorta happened. The last time I worked on the document was December 12th
around 10pm Pacific time, and read through it on December 13th in the late
afternoon. Today it is gone.
 

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