How-to-Recover-an-Unsaved-or-Lost-Microsoft-Word-Excel-Document or PowerPoint Presentation

• The previously unsaved document (an Excel worksheet or PowerPoint presentation) is now restored.

Please note that to be able to restore unsaved documents, the program should have autosave settings activated.

By default, they are activated in all Microsoft Office programs, and to check them, • Go to File / Options / Save • Make sure that Save Documents section

has checked boxes next to - Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving - Save Autorecover information every... - by default, the option is 10 minutes, but

If your computer shut down or restarted when working with a document, worksheet or a presentation, or you haven’t restored the document offered by the program, and after you

open it again, there is no option to recover it, there is still another way to restore a document.

To do it: • Go to File / Options / Save • In the section Save Documents (Workbooks or Presentations), find the Autorecover file location • This is the

folder where all autosaved files of an open application are saved.

• Go there • To do it, copy the path to the folder and insert it into the Windows file manager • The folder that opens contains all copies

of files created as a result of autosaving: their names have the word Autosaved.

• There are also copies of unsaved files, the name sof which have the word Unsaved.

• You can find the necessary file by name and date.

• You can open such unsaved or autosaved files with the same program that created them: Word, Excel or PowerPoint • Open the last autosaved copy of the file

If you haven’t found the necessary files of the unsaved or autosaved document (worksheet or presentation) in the autorecover folder, you can also try restoring them with Hetman Partition Recovery.

You may not find them in the said folder because the autosave file or an unsaved document copy were created a long time ago and the program, may have

To recover them: • Run Hetman Partition Recovery • Use it to scan the disk containing the autorecovery data (by default it is disk C) • If Fast scan

doesn’t help you to find the necessary files, use Full analysis for your disk.

• When it is over, select Find File by clicking on a corresponding icon in the program’s menu.

• Find the necessary files by their extension.

Please note that autosave files and copies of unsaved files have the following extensions: For Word - .asd For Excel - .xlsb For PowerPoint - .ppt You will find

• Select the necessary files and send them to Recovery list.

• After that click Recover and specify recovery settings.

• After that, you can open them and see if they are the ones you needed to recover.

If your document, worksheet or presentation is damaged after a computer failure or the work of Hetman Partition Recovery, and you see an error when opening it, here is

how you can fix the problem: • Start the Microsoft Office program - in our case, it is Word • Open other documents • Browse • In the menu on