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I had a word doc which had a lot of notes in it for an upcoming trip.

At some point, word hiccupped and it was gone but then I recovered it and kept typing. I saved it and went my merry way, or so I thought.

I restarted word this AM (diff doc) and the file came up on the side - you know, that little box. Since I figured that was the older version when word crashed and I didn't need it anymore, I deleted it when prompted.

Welp - there is now no file at all of that doc. How do I find any version of that doc, since I don't want to retype all that stuff? Just the recycle bin?

Thanks...
 
Did you look in your recycle bin? If it is there then you can most likely restore it. Just a thought.
 
Try this knowledge base article from MSFT:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099

do a bit of googling if that does not help. Its still on the disk, you can go so far as to try a commercial/free undelete tool. If this is a precious document then you have to treat this like a forensic recovery. Don't create any new files on the disk, don't delete any but tiptoe thru the procedures to recover deleted files. This can go so far as to try to boot the computer off of a USB key or putting the original disk in a new machine -- so that you can install special tools without layout down new bits on the disk you are trying to ressurrect. I would reserve those steps only for the extreme.

Good luck!
 
Exhibit "A" in the "why I still won't change to using Word" brief.
 
Thanks everyone.

I found it in the recycle bin, but, when restored was corrupted. I did a text restore, then, and at least the text is there but formatting is gone and links are a mess.

But at least most of it is there!
 
SCCutler said:
Exhibit "A" in the "why I still won't change to using Word" brief.
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There is one benefit, Spike, to Word in this case:

With WordPerfect, there is no autodraft save that I'm aware of. So if you have a powerfailure or something (whatever happened to Beth here), you actually lose your document.

Word does give the ability to recover, but as Beth saw, its crappy, and prone to issue.

OO.o for the win.
 
SkyHog said:
There is one benefit, Spike, to Word in this case:

With WordPerfect, there is no autodraft save that I'm aware of. So if you have a powerfailure or something (whatever happened to Beth here), you actually lose your document.

Word does give the ability to recover, but as Beth saw, its crappy, and prone to issue.

OO.o for the win.
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Fortunately, WP has autosave on as frequent a schedule as one chooses, and also, save succeeding versions as desired, automatically. Remember, WP was fully-developed as the premier word processor when Word could not be made to work... at all.
 
SCCutler said:
Fortunately, WP has autosave on as frequent a schedule as one chooses, and also, save succeeding versions as desired, automatically. Remember, WP was fully-developed as the premier word processor when Word could not be made to work... at all.
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And when WP moved to Windoze, it worked worse. I had a set of special typefaces that worked on everything except WordPerfect -when I called them on it, it was the fault of the typefaces:rolleyes:
 
Cap'n Jack said:
alaskaflyer said:
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What does it do better? You're telling people thare's something better- back it up.
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You get stability for free in Writer, you have to pay MS for the privilege of instability. That would be my primary concern.

Off the top of my head: User interface, style sheets, master documents, nested lists. My gosh, attempting even the most rudimentary tweaking of nested lists in Word will send anyone to the loony bin after five minutes.

My main criticism of Writer is their system of tracking document revisions during collaboration. Word is clearly superior in this area.
 
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alaskaflyer said:
You get stability for free in Writer, you have to pay MS for the privilege of instability. That would be my primary concern.

Interface, style sheets, master documents, nested lists. My gosh, attempting even the most rudimentary tweaking of nested lists in Word will send anyone to the loony bin after five minutes.

My main criticism of Writer is their system of tracking document revisions during collaboration. Word is clearly superior in this area.
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I haven't had issues with stability in Word since I switched from WordPerfect, but I recognize people have differing experiences.

By "nested lists", do you mean multi-level bulleted lists? These can be a pain in Word. The issue in master documents in Word is sharing thse masters. If I use it myself only, they work Ok.

The Word 2007 interface-I've learned it...it's an interface. I sometimes need to do an extra mouse click or two compared to the old interface.

Document revisions...I agree Word has done those well.

Does openoffice do macro programs? For some reason, I tend to write and use those more than most people, even in Word.

One area that annoys me in Word is dealing with any graphics in a document. I usually put them in a table to deal with them more easily- 1 row for the graphic, the second row for the caption.

The Word equation editor works adequately for me.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
Does openoffice do macro programs? For some reason, I tend to write and use those more than most people, even in Word.
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You would love Writer for this alone. You really would :cheerswine: Though Word macros are mostly not cross-compatible.

Not all open source freeware is superior :dunno: For desktop publishing I use Adobe at work, but Scribus at home because it was free. It's OK but it ain't Adobe. But I really think Writer is superior, Calc too, never used (data)Base, and Presenter ain't bad though it seems to have the most cross-compatibility issues with MS Office of any of the components.
 
I prefer OO.o as well, but part of the reason could be that in the late 90's I got fed up with Windows and starting using Linux almost exclusively until XP came out, so we're talking maybe three or four years of rarely booting into Windows except at work.

At that time, StarOffice (Sun's proprietary office suite and OO.o's predecessor) was (IMHO) the best and most full-featured office suite available for Linux, and I just got comfortable with it over the years. The first and successive releases of OpenOffice.org added many new features and polished up the suite quite a bit, but retained the "feel" of StarOffice and had excellent backward compatibility.

I also suggest that you give OO.o a chance, if for no other reason than that it's free. If you decide you hate it, you haven't lost anything.

-Rich
 
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