If you're writing a document in Microsoft Word and the worst happens, you may not have lost all of your work. Here are some steps to try and recover.

A specialized unsaved Word document recovery tool like 4DDiG Data Recovery can retrieve them. It checks both the default AutoRecover folder and other possible locations to find unsaved Word document.

The Keep the last autosaved version if close without saving option enables you to recover unsaved documents (with minimal loss of data). Once you've enabled this feature, MS Office will save copies of ...

How to Retrieve MS Word Files Before Saving Changes. While several of Microsoft Word's features are taken for granted today, at the time of MS Word's 1983 release those features were a significant ...

You may be able to recover an unsaved Microsoft Word document if the document is closed in some fashion without being saved.

Temporary files may allow you to recover an unsaved Word document. Multiple recovery methods exist, but no one method is guaranteed to work in every situation.

A text recovery converter will let you recover corrupt Word files. We have step-by-step instructions to follow.

If the Word data document you want to export is a Word form, retrieve just the data from the form with the "Save Form Data as Delimited Text File" option.

The easiest way to recover an unsaved Word document is probably to just open up Word again. Here's when to do that, when not to, and how to find the lost docs.