Recovering documents

If Microsoft Word 2019 suddenly closes while working or you forget to save a document that you have been editing for some time, you will definitely want to try to recover the document. In order to do so, follow these steps:

  1. Open Microsoft Word. If there are files to be recovered, they will be listed on the launch window of Word 2019, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
  1. Word will notify you at the top left-hand corner of the screen if there are files that need attention.
  2. Under the Recovered text, click on Show Recovered Files.
  3. The Word environment will open with a new blank document, and, to the left of this, ...

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