Autorecovery on Mac Word -- where is it?

aruna

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I was working on a word doc on Mac this am when it crashed, or something; the whole screen went blank, and though I pressed the reverse button just in case I had deleted the whole doc by mistake, noting happened -- it stayed blank. Then it disappeared, and older docs appeared.
I did a search for recovering an unsaved document (my settings are for autosave) but they all say "go to autorecvovery" but no-one tells you HOW to go to autorecovery -- where is that bloody file???


It's not the end of the world -- I was just fitting in places and dates at the start of chapters -- but it's a nuisance. I do have a saved doc from yesterday. I save everything in Google Docs every day. Thanks for any help.
 

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No real techie advice for this, except to note that I've long been in the habit of hitting CTRL-S about every two minutes, when working on any kind of document.

Autorecovery and autosave functions scare the crap out of me. They lull you into a totally false sense of security. Don't depend on them.

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