How to find a saved document in Windows ...

<p id='intelliTxt'> Thunder, power outages and battery failure can all work together to steal a document in progress. ... .If you saved the file, you can laugh in the face of the storm, but even if you do not, all is not lost. ... .AutoRecover Microsoft Office option can be enabled or create a temporary file with the program during a backup machine available </ p> difficulty. .. <h2 Moderately easy class="Heading1a Underline header"> instructions <id = ol 'IntelliTXT. .<li> Id = "jsArticleStep1"> 1 <p> sure that all files. visible. ... .Open "My Documents", then from the main menu, select "Tools" and then "Folder Options .. .Select "View" tab and go to "Show hidden files and folders." .. .Click the radio button "Show hidden files and folders .." Clear "Hide extensions for known file types" if it is enabled. ... .Show hidden files with extensions will increase your chances of finding the unsaved document. .. </ P> <li id="jsArticleStep2"> 2 <p> search for backup files WBK. ... .AutoRecover option, Word creates files with the wbk .. ... .Look in your "My Documents" folder for any file with that extension (eg TravelList.wbk). ... .If you find a suitable file, right-click the file and choose Rename, rename the file properly formatted Word (myfile.doc for example), then double click to open the file. .. </ P>. .<li Id="jsArticleStep3"> 3 <p> Search XAR backup files. ... .The recovery option will automatically excel extension *. .. Xar. ... .If you find a suitable file, right-click the file and select Rename, name the Excel formatted file (eg spreadsheet.xls), then double click to open the file. .. </ P <li> Id = "jsArticleStep4"> 4 <p> search for files TMP Office. ... .Office programs have an automatic backup function that creates a temporary copy of the file after a certain number of minutes. ... .Find files using a.. Tmp files and a file size of 0KB more. ... .If you can not see the size of the file, click the View menu in the top folder and change the option "Details". ... .The name of the file should be like one of those "~ WRD0003.tmp look, ppt04.tmp" or "$ ~ RD0002.tmp. ... .After the program you can use to rename the file is properly formatted. ... .can for a PowerPoint document that would be a good name to "Presentation.ppt for Word file as" study.doc ", and for Excel, you can specify the file name Finances.xls. .. </ P> <. .li id = "jsArticleStep5"> 5 <p> widen your search for the file if it is not in "My Documents". ... .Click the Start button and search using the search bar on the hard drive for files with *. .. Wbk, *. .. Xar "or" *. .. Tmp ". ... .Sort results by Date Modified to see if any of the files to the same time as the missing file to have. ... .Note that this is especially important when searching your disk for *. .. Tmp, since many programs create temporary files. .. </ P> ...