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You lost a Word file after you spend so much effort, this is awful and I understand what you felt. There may be some corruption while you were trying to save the file and the crash occurred. You can try some methods listed below to recover files and see if it works:

If you have Windows Vista/7, try this:
• Click Start , type the document name in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
• If the File list contains the document, double-click the document to open it in Word.
If the File list does not contain the document, go to step 3.
• Click Start, type *.doc in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

If you have Microsoft Word 2002 or Microsoft Office Word 2003
(a) Start Word.
(b) On the File menu, click Open.
(c) Point to the arrow in the Files of type box, click All Files *.*, select the file, and then click Open.

Search for AutoRecover files
If the preceding method does not locate the missing file, search for AutoRecover files. By default, Word searches for AutoRecover files each time that it starts, and then displays all that it finds in the Document Recovery task pane.

Use Task Manager
1. Right-click the Taskbar, and then click Task Manager.
2. On the Processes tab, click any instance of Winword.exe or Microsoft Word, and then click End Process. Repeat this step until you have quit all instances of Winword.exe and Word.
3. Close the Windows Task Manager dialog box, and then start Word.

If Word finds the AutoRecover file, the Document Recovery task pane opens on the left side of the screen, and the missing document is listed as "document name [Original]" or as "document name [Recovered]". If this occurs, double-click the file in the Document Recovery pane, click Save As on the File menu, and then save the document as a .doc file. Manually change the extension to .doc, if you have to.
To make sure this does not happen in future, you can make sure the contents in the file are compatible with Word. You can also delete the template file normal.dot and restart Word application.


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