Appendix A. Recovering Files and Repairing Word
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Creating Automatic Backup Copies 979
Recovering Document Files
So your computer just crashed, or lost power, and you haven’t saved your work lately. Nearly everyone who has ever used Word has experienced this now and then. It happens. Programs crash. Data gets lost.
However, with Word 2007, not much data typically gets lost because of the very good data-recovery features built in. As in Word 2003, Word saves your work in temporary files every few minutes, and after a crash, it attempts to load those temporary files so you can recover any unsaved changes to your documents. Therefore, the most you are likely to lose is a few ...
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