How: retrieve a document from a Word backup file

If an unexpected event from your computer hits, error or virus attack such as a hard drive a number of components destroy.

You may even lose some of the files on your hard drive, including the important Word documents stored. Microsoft Word includes built-in tools that allow to retrieve a document from the backup file, but you must first determine whether a Word-document backup file still exists. Difficulty: average

Instructions

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   First, if you find "Create always backup copy" feature is enabled on your computer, to determine whether a file backup is available.

In Word 2007, click click on the 'Microsoft Office'-initiative, and choose "Word Options" and "Advanced". Look in the screen section and see if "Always back up" has a check mark next to the highlight "Save". In earlier versions of Word, go to "tools > options", then click "Save" tab is selected to display when the "create always backup copy".

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Navigate to the folder where finally lost Word document was saved.

Enter "* .wbk" in the field of research at the top of the screen and press "Enter" to all the files in the folder that contains the WBK or Word backup, file extension.

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If you find the folder search the computer for the backup file.

Research, go to start, enter "* .wbk" into the search box and press "Enter" to open the search box. Display the file in the list, check in the "Folder" column to see the location on your hard disk.

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NEN IhreComputer Word, and then press the button "Open". Drop down menu type file in addition to the "File name" box and select "All files". Navigate to the folder that contains the Word backup file and double-click to open the file.

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Save the file as backup of Word in a document.

To save a new document, click on the button "save under" select the folder where you save the document, type a new name for the document in the "file name" box, select to "Word document" as "Save as type". Click then the button "Save" to as a normal Word document recovery. Doc.