My daughter spent all evening typing an assignment on microsoft word. Sent it to print and closed word. Of course it didnt print and she hadn't saved it. Help me find it please....... My recent documents is empty, any ideas?????
2007-09-24 11:13:51 · 8 answers · asked by bagpusstail 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Ok, if it is an up to date copy of word then it might autosave, try opening word again and see if it comes up with it. (2003 onwards)
2007-09-24 11:22:28 · answer #1 · answered by jabberthenut 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may have spooled to the printer okay, but for some reason the printer didn't get the signal to please print it out. If you can find the way to reset the printer, that might recover what has been spooled to it from the computer.
If I am writing an e-mail, sometimes I lose the message, but I can click on the back arrow up in the left-hand corner and it takes me back one page to where the e-mail is and I can keep going.
If she sent it to print and the printer was off then that command is still in the computer looking for a place to go. Clicking on the printer might enable the computer to spool the whole darned thing to it (the printer) and that would solve it for you.
Good luck. I know first-hand how frustrating this can be. I had to retype a 40-page history of South Portland for something that resembled this same kind of problem.
I am wondering if those programs you see that can recover deleted files would work to recover a word document - ?
I am feeling that entire word document is still in her computer just waiting for a way to be printed out.
2007-09-24 20:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Valuable lesson I hope she has learned that practically as soon as you start a document, name and save it and then autorecovery kicks in so even if you forget to save regularly as you type, if power goes off the document will be saved to last autorecovery. I should go into tools, options, save and set autorecovery down to about 4 or 5 mins. If you save on hard drive, you'll hardly notice that it is saving and will still be able to continue working. With the present missing document, it could be that it saved it as Document1 into My Documents but if she said No, it is probably lost. Again, rather than just pressing print, she should get into the good habit of print preview first.
2007-09-27 15:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I really think that it is gone.
It won't help this time, but go into word, then choose tools and then options.
Pick the "Save" tab. On here is a tick box for "save Autorecover info every " X-minutes - this may help if you have a crash in future.
2007-09-24 18:18:44 · answer #4 · answered by spiegy2000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you can recover if it wasn't saved. And I have no idea where your recent documents went. Hope this helps.
Jan
2007-09-24 18:35:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jan C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check in print - it might have been sent to printer and not printed for some reason.
But the chances are it didn't print because she hadn't saved it - so the printer couldn't find it!
2007-09-24 18:26:05 · answer #6 · answered by libbyft 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there r many programes to recover deleted files or lost files have a look on freewarefiles.com or pctools.com but i think you would have had to save it to become a file before you can recover it.
2007-09-24 19:21:03 · answer #7 · answered by dr falkin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my day "ha ha" you woudn't expect to rely
upon someone that didn't understand what
they were doing with a computer.
2007-09-24 18:25:17 · answer #8 · answered by RICHARD B 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋