If you're writing a document in Microsoft Word and the worst happens, you may not have lost all of your work. Here are some steps to try and recover.

If the Word data document you want to export is a Word form, retrieve just the data from the form with the "Save Form Data as Delimited Text File" option.

You may be able to recover an unsaved Microsoft Word document if the document is closed in some fashion without being saved.

The Keep the last autosaved version if close without saving option enables you to recover unsaved documents (with minimal loss of data). Once you've enabled this feature, MS Office will save copies of ...

Temporary files may allow you to recover an unsaved Word document. Multiple recovery methods exist, but no one method is guaranteed to work in every situation.