The Computer Is Automatically Turned Off. What Can I Do If The WORD Document Is Not Saved?

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If you are dealing with newly created files or Word, Excel or PowerPoint

(for example, in Outlook)

After closing the file without saving it, you can follow the following steps to open the last automatically saved draft:

1. open the Office2010 application you are using.

2. click the file tab.

3. click "recent".

4. in Word2010, click "restore unsaved documents"; in Excel2010, click "restore unsaved Workbook"; in PowerPoint2010, click "restore unsaved presentation".

Where is it?

5. will be saved in the new window.

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Select the file, and then click open.

6. in the function bar at the top of the file, click Save as file to save to the computer.

You can also access files with these steps.

1. open the Office2010 application you are using.

2. open a new file or any existing file.

3. click the file tab.

4. click "information".

5. click the "management version".

6. in Word2010, click "restore unsaved documents"; in Excel2010, click "restore unsaved Workbook"; in PowerPoint2010, click "restore unsaved presentation".

7. you will see a list of unsaved files.

Select the file, and then click open.

8. in the function bar at the top of the file, click Save as file to save to the computer.

Notes

Depending on the operating system, you can also open the file by browsing the location of the following files:

Windows7/WindowsVista

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\WindowsXP

C:\DocumentsandSettings\\ApplicationData\Microsoft\

The location of these files cannot be changed.

The files in this folder will be retained for four days after creation, or retained until the next modified file.

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Using files to automatically save versions

Open and view the earlier version of the current file.

To view the automatic save version of the current file, follow these steps:

1. click the file tab.

2. click "information".

Under the version, the auto save version of the current file will be listed.

3. click on any version in the list to open the corresponding version.

Restore the earlier version of the current file

To replace the current file with an earlier version, follow these steps:

1. open and view steps 1 to 3 in the earlier version of the current file.

2. in the function bar at the top of the document, click restore.

3. click "confirm" to overwrite the current document using the earlier auto save version.

Compare the earlier version of the file with the current version (Word only).

You can use Word2010 to compare the current document with the earlier document and select the changes that you want to save.

To compare the current Word document with the earlier automatically saved version, follow these steps:

1. click the file tab.

2. in the version list, click the earlier version that you want to compare with the current document.

3. click the "comparison" in the function bar at the top of the document.

A new document will be opened, showing the difference between the two versions that are being viewed.

You can choose one of the following options:

Accept or reject changes in comparison documents and save them as new documents.

Close the comparison document and completely restore the automatically saved version of the file;

Close the comparison version and the automatic save version of the file, and continue to use the current document.

Remarks:

You can also go to C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Application_Name to open the file.

Unless the "if I do not save, then close, please retain the last automatically saved version" to retain the recently saved version, otherwise all the automatically saved files will be deleted when the program is closed.

For more information, see saving and restoring Office files automatically.