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Is there anyway to recover an unsaved Open Office document?

I've been working on an essay for a while, so part of it was saved, but my computer over heated and shut down and it didn't get to save what I had previously typed. When I turned my computer back on a recovery screen came up but then it said the recovery was interupted and it didn't work. Is there anything I can do to get it back? I had quite a bit typed up.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Assuming you were using Ms Office;

    Search for *.doc files in the Search pane. If you couldn’t found the, search for *.ASD files in the entire computer. If not, do the following steps:

    1) Open Microsoft Office Word and open the Open File dialogue box.

    2) In the Open File dialogue box, click on Type of File drop down box and select All Files (*.*).

    3) Check for .asd file and select it and click on Open.

    4) Then, restart your computer without closing Word.

    5) Open the Microsoft Office Word.

    After opening Word, if it finds the AutoRecover file, then it will show the Document Recovery pane on the left side. The lost document will be listed in the pane as DocumentName[Original] or DocumentName[Recovered]. Then double-click on the file in the Recovery pane and then go to Save As and then save the document as .docx file where ever you want.

    If you could not find any .asd file then, search for *.wbk, *.TMP, ~*.* files in the Search Everywhere window. If you found the file and seems to be corrupted, then in the Open File dialogue box, select that file and instead of clicking on Open button there will be a option for Open and Repair on the Open button, just click on it. It will open your document and tries to repair it.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Sorry

    but

    there

    is NO

    Way

    Why don't you use MS-Office 2010. try 1 month trial

    Source(s): that's simple ;-)
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