If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

Have you encountered a Word file corruption issue with a notice: “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”? Microsoft Word will offer three solutions to ...

Temporary files may allow you to recover an unsaved Word document. Multiple recovery methods exist, but no one method is guaranteed to work in every situation. To prevent losing your work, you can ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...