Word Mac deleted my work!

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Elizabeth7

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I was inserting photos into my document (due Friday) and somehow the work was deleted. I didn't back it up before inserting (never had trouble inserting before). It somehow saved it under the file name but also, somehow I got the original version back. How can I retrieve what was done prior to inserting the last two photos that stole my work? Does this thing autosave? (I'm really new to this from a PC). It never asked me if I wanted to save or delete so I had no warning! It just disappeared! Arrrggg!
 
Word did not delete anything. You did not save your work. However, Word periodically creates and save temporary Work Files. If Word is inadvertently shut down as in the case of a power loss or application crash, then you should be able to recover most if not all of your work.
 
As MisterMe said, the autosave feature is a safety measure in the event that Word crashes on you so that it can recover the file from the last autosave, not as a way of normally saving your documents. You need to go to the File menu (or whatever it is now in MS Office with that ribbon of theirs :p) and save your file. It will ask you to give it a name in order to save it to your desired location.
 
and I can't open ANY documents! Including my newest version of the lost work. I am very frustrated. And I have no idea where the autosave is hiding. I an NOT impressed with this! The curser disappeared and then it wouldn't insert text boxes and then wouldn't open properties and then won't quit Word until I use Finder.
 
It probably means it's still running. If you click to Finder, Word simply goes to the background, but probably still has the highlight below its Dock icon, right?
 
thanks. My son (the Mac genius) helped. Had to force quit Word. Never did find the original document. I do have autosave but didn't find it. Word didn't prompt me when I restarted it like it does on the PC...son was too tired to figure why it didn't.
 
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