Recovering Word documents:

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Microsoft Word errored out and I was

forced to save a document as rescued

document.doc. However, when I try

to open the doc, I get the message:

"Microsoft Word cannot ...

Autosave is defaulted to 10 minutes. It should, in theory and limited testing, place

an ASD file at H:\Application Data\Microsoft\Word.

You have to then copy that file to:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles

And use the "Recover Unsaved Documents" button in Word to open up that

ASD file.

Still - If you save the document once to your H: drive, then it should be able to

recover the Autosave document more easily.

Opening documents from an email won't save properly, because they are being

run/launched from a temporary location. An emailed document should be

opened then run through “Save as” to a known location before editing.