Recovering Word file 1

[GBall]

Hi,
last night I created a large Word document, when we had a power cut - I hadn't saved the document.
I assumed when I next opened Word, it would pick up the file I had been working on from the temporary file it created (it is nearly 2005 after all).
Anyway, I found the temporary file this morning with the date/timestamp that matched when I was working on it and the last modified time was only a couple of minutes before the system went down.
I copied it to a new document to be safe, the opened Word.
No mention of a document to be recovered - nothing at all.
I tried opeing the .tmp document, but Word didn't recognise it and tried to import it as a Turkish language document!
I renamed my copy of the document to a .doc and tried to open it - same thing happened.

Is there anything that I can do to recover my document as Word seems incapable of recognising it's own.

Thanks.


Regards,
Graham

 

[eyec]

try changing the file extention to ".txt" and open it in Notepad. you will have a lot of Word formating code & sumbols in it, but you may be able to cut and paste the info you need into a new file that Word can open.

 

[tf1]

Try selecting the tmp file and use Open and Repair. If that fails, try the Recover Text from Any File option.


Regards: tf1

 

[GBall]

Thanks.
The recover text from any file option did work, but it seemed to have everything that had been typed before the system went down - corrections, backspaces, everything !
But at least the text was there and we finally made sense of it, although it may have been quicker to start again.
B-(

I'm amazed that in this day and age, Word can't work with its own documents better.


Regards,
Graham