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Chris_X
Copper Contributor
Nov 03, 2025

Microsoft Word - recover a document

Hi

 

Is this OK to post here re Microsoft Word? (I couldn't find a section for Word specifically).

 

I want to try and recover a situation with a Word doc... I think it is probably unrecoverable... but here goes.

 

Somehow... and i was typing fast and the screen froze so i cant be sure what happened...i deleted the contents of a word document and then save it.... so it is now blank... i do not have a backup of it...

 

Is there any way to roll it back or recover a cached version?

 

This happened an hour ago.

 

Many thanks!

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  • kevinpierce's avatar
    kevinpierce
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 03, 2025

    You can try checking File > Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents, or look in the temp files folder. If that doesn’t work, it’s probably gone unless you’ve got File History or OneDrive versioning turned on.

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