Office Document Data Recovery - This one everyone needs.

You are working on a huge proposal, all day and something happens... A glitch in the lights, the power running out of the laptop, or trying to ignore that MSN message you accidentally click close.

Here is a free tip.. You are really gonna thank me later.

Your office document that you were just working on is gone or corrupted. You're not about to run out and find a data recovery place and spend huge bills for one document but it sure does suck loosing all that you worked on all morning.

Here's a couple quick tips to remember when this happens.

1) Unhide all system files and hidden files.

If you are in Vista you need to do this:

Seeing your hidden files and system files in Vista is not much different than in XP. Here are the step-by-step directions. Remember that system files are hidden for a reason. Be careful!

1. Click the round blue Start thing in the left corner
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Folder Options
4. Click the View tab
5. Click Show hidden files and folders
6. If you want to see system files as well, unclick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
7. Click OK

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial130.html

2) Microsoft Office always has a default saving location. You open this location, your document is now named something else or ending with a .tmp and see if you can open these files using word.

3) Another trick is find where the original document resided, and open up those tmp files or wpd files in notepad. Right-click open -> choose program -> notepad.

4) Lastly, something else that has worked tonnes of times as if by magic has been to open the Microsoft word document or tmp file with OpenOffice.. A free alternative to Microsoft Office

http://www.openoffice.org/.

Recovering your documents is a bit more involved that 4 simple steps so I've enclosed a few technical links here that I'm sure you'll read when this does happen but just remember .. All is not lost!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316951

http://www.amset.info/tips/office-recovery.asp

Cheers,

Rommel
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