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Old 05-20-2005, 02:26 PM   #1
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Recovering Word doc - URGENT

My computer shut down prior to me saving a revision of a word document.
I have found an AutoRecovery save of the document (ASD format) but cant open it into a readable word format.
Can anyone please help?

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Old 05-20-2005, 02:39 PM   #2
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What version of Word? Usually just opening Word after a crash will open up the temp file.
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Old 05-20-2005, 02:57 PM   #3
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It's Word 2002, and when I restarted the only thing I could find was the doc as per the last save.
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Old 05-20-2005, 04:23 PM   #4
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this might be useful: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q316951

Scroll down to the section on how to read/recover *.asd files.
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this might help you: http://www.pcinspector.de/download.a...#file_recovery
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Old 05-20-2005, 06:08 PM   #6
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Thanks guys I'm exploring both of these.
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Old 05-23-2005, 06:51 AM   #7
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Just to report - have tried everything to no avail, and so have accepted that the work will have to be redone.

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