I have been stupid. I sent a letter on Saturday (written in Word), which I printed and saved, but did not print a second copy for me. (I thought I'd do this later). I did save it, and switched off the computer. When I got a telephone reply this morning I drafted a reply using my previous letter - and then (STUPIDLY) pressed SAVE not SAVE AS. So I overtyped.

I did not do a back up after saving yesterday.

Track changes doesn't seem to give me anything.

IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO?

HELP!!

You did not say how you sent this letter. Was it by email? If so, look in your sent mail folder. If you sent by snailmail - as in an envelope and tossed it in post, then you may be out of luck.

For Word documents, depending on how your Save options are setup in Word, you may have a .bak file that is a copy of the last version of the document. So you can try searching for your documentname.bak, pull it into Word, then do a save as.

If not there, then again out of luck. To keep it from happening again, enable the Save backup option in Word.

Also, some printers keep a copy of the latest document in their buffers so you can just press a button on the printer to print the last print job. But if you turned off the printer too, that may be lost.

Thanks for this. Sadly, no I sent it by snailmail - the recipient didn't give an email address. So in Word, not email. And no back up. But thanks for advice.


You did not say how you sent this letter. Was it by email? If so, look in your sent mail folder. If you sent by snailmail - as in an envelope and tossed it in post, then you may be out of luck.

For Word documents, depending on how your Save options are setup in Word, you may have a .bak file that is a copy of the last version of the document. So you can try searching for your documentname.bak, pull it into Word, then do a save as.

If not there, then again out of luck. To keep it from happening again, enable the Save backup option in Word.

Also, some printers keep a copy of the latest document in their buffers so you can just press a button on the printer to print the last print job. But if you turned off the printer too, that may be lost.[/QUOTE]

Sorry I could not be of more help.