Sometime earlier, we learned the simple technique of changing the Save AutoRecover information time limit in Word. AutoRecover feature, as you know, comes in handy when there are any unplanned ...

It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

When you run a Microsoft Office program such as Word after forgetting to save a document, the program automatically lists autosaved files in the Recovery pane. Once you close this pane, the list ...

You may be able to recover an unsaved Microsoft Word document if the document is closed in some fashion without being saved. There are multiple methods for recovering ...

No one is safe from a power outage or computer crash, so you need to take every precaution to save your data when working on important documents. This can be helped by enabling and configuring your ...

Microsoft Word has become the go-to tool for crafting documents of all kinds with millions of users worldwide. But what happens when the unexpected occurs, and your system crashes, leaving your ...

That 20-page report you've been writing for weeks suddenly disappear from your hard drive? Weblog Hack College lists 10 ways you may be able to recover an accidentally deleted Word document, including ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

(Pavel Ignatov/Shutterstock) Delete a file in Windows, and you can often recover it even if it’s no longer in the Recycle Bin. Third-party data recovery tools are available, but they can be expensive.

Microsoft has created a Windows 10 File Recovery Tool that recovers deleted files and forgot to tell anyone. Everyone has deleted a file by accident and then realized that they had no backup. If this ...

This might take several minutes. As the message says, it can take forever to open the document in some cases. It happens due to the following reasons: The downloaded ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Microsoft has released a new file recovery app that might ...