If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

After toiling on a report for hours, you close Word and realize that you forgot to save the file. Perhaps you opened a document intended to be used as a template; you made a few changes and then saved ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

Microsoft Word has become the go-to tool for crafting documents of all kinds with millions of users worldwide. But what happens when the unexpected occurs, and your system crashes, leaving your ...

May 20, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The Workers' Edge blog points out that a macro written by Dave Rado back in the days of Word 97 to back up and ...

This post will show you how to use Version History to restore Office files. If you use Microsoft Office, you might have sometimes accidentally deleted or overwritten an important file. Fortunately, a ...

If you've ever experienced the sudden loss of a document, either because you saved it someplace weird and can no longer find it or the power went out in the middle of typing, you know what a painful, ...

The days of pressing the wrong key and losing a whole week’s worth of work should be long gone now. Today’s cloud-based apps keep duplicate copies of everything, saving you the hassle of manual ...

Q. I’ve lost all my task bars in Microsoft Word. The program works fine if you know all the keyboard commands. I’ve uninstalled it and then reloaded it twice, to no avail. I have a suspicion the ...