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 ...

Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

There are a handful of methods you can try to recover a lost Word document.Maskot/Getty Images If you've ever lost all of your work because you didn't save your Microsoft Word document, you understand ...

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 ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

Word 2007 periodically records your edits in a file separate from your main saved file. If you exit Word without saving your file, Word opens this AutoRecover file when you next launch the program. If ...

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 ...

Sometimes, unsaved documents may be autosaved in a separate file that can be seen in the Finder. Depending on the application and system settings, this may appear as a bizarre file type in the Finder, ...

The sanity-saving Manage Presentation capability is available on all of the current Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I wrote about this a couple of years ago (see “How ...

Once you know what you are doing, recovering an unsaved Word document is as easy as pie. Once you know what you are doing, recovering an unsaved Word document is as easy as pie. I almost had a very ...