o/t - recovering MSWord text that has been...

[Asterix]

Madame's only just become PC literate and has learnt the golden rule of saving regularly.

She has been working on a *very* important document that for days now, regularly saving it.

From what I can piece together is seems that either she or the O/S has deleted all the main text (not headers and footers) by mistake and then saved the file.

I need to recover that overwritten text. Track changes was not on as far as I can tell.

Having been googling for about an hour now, trying various programs, but nothing seems to work.

Have looked at several .tmp files, but none contain the text I need.

Anyone recovered from a similar position?

Beer reward available to those that can help. Thanks in advance.

[BuGsBuNnY]

Other than the .tmp files, not much else you can do imho...If it has been saved over, very unlikely that you can get it back... I assumed that you closed the file and reopened it, hence cannot click "undo"?

[Asterix]

tried undo...no joy

[BuGsBuNnY]

Not much else you can do :-(...

I know its not solution to your current problem, but always open an existing file, e.g. filename.doc , save as filenameV2.doc etc. This was there is always the previous version. Or, as you mentioned, use the track changes option. Personally I like the crude version control on my documents, track changes is useful at work.

[Asterix]

agreed.

After much more investigation and debate, have given up and consoled ourselves with Shiraz and nuts...bang goes the diet.