Please help - word document problems?

Question

please can u help? i have just lost my word document. it needs to be "open and repaired" because the laptop had a spaz and wouldnt turn on again so even though i had saved constantly, it still stuffed up the document. The only languages it repairs itself into is box language or complete jiberish..

please what can i do?

Answer 1

Typically, Word will allow you to restore a document from its temp files. When you start Word up the second time, it will show you the names of the files it has saved and ask you what you want to do with them (discard them or save them). Choose save, give it a new name, and you're good to go.

If that didn't work, use Windows Explorer to look at the directory where you saved the file. Set it to show hidden files. The files that are named beginning with a ~ and ending with a .tmp extension are the files that were saved by word. Grab the most recent, rename it with a .doc extension and open it from Word. You should be good to go.