How Backup Or Restore To Unsaved Data From Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint 2010

Microsoft office gives inbuilt function for auto saved document option available but sometimes unexpected close Microsoft office document like Microsoft office word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint act,

You can also set auto save time (1 to 120 min) in Microsoft office document manually.

What time we need this data recover option?

1. Suppose you are closing other window from the screen and unexpected you close the Microsoft document like word. Else before that you will see the message do you want to save unsaved data and you have clicked no by you.

2. In the second scenario suppose your system might be crash or power supply problem.
Solutions are given to Backup or Restore to unsaved data from Microsoft office in two different methods one by one in below.

First method to recover Microsoft office document

1. Closed document when you opening it will ask to recover this file. If you don’t find this option than click on Top right office button in below image

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2. Recover unsaved Document automatically visible under this option automatically.

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3. Click on this option than unsaved data file open in another Microsoft office window with “save as” option under the top ribbon see in blow image.

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4. Click on save as option and get recovered document in your hard drive.

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Second method to recover Microsoft office document

Second method should be of use if first method is not helpful

1. For windows 7, Windows 8, and vista user can see the recover data in below path.

C >Users > Your own User name (Folder) > AppData > Local > Microsoft > Office > Unsaved Data
2. And for Windows XP users can see the recover data under below path

C > Document and Settings > you own user name (Folder) > Local settings > Application > Data > Microsoft Office > Unsaved Files
You can also recover doing this in below image also

Backup Or Restore To Unsaved Data

Questions covered in this article,
How to get unsaved data from Microsoft office?
How to recover lose data from Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint 2010?
Where to store unsaved data in computer hard drive?

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Set Auto Save Time Option In Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint Document

Microsoft office save document in each 10 minutes as default time duration, But you can change it at own time limitation. Ex. If you want to save Microsoft document in each 2 minute automatically than you can set it for each 2 minutes.

This option is available in all Microsoft products including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, and Word.

This option is available can be help to protect our use full data, we don’t need to recover data after click on unexpected close button, Or stop power supply, System crash and number tough situations.

This option is available in all past released old version and also available in upgraded version, Microsoft office 2012, and Microsoft office 2013.

Steps to set Auto save Microsoft office document option in below:

Step 1: Click on office button (Top Right) from your opened document. If you don’t find than see below

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Step 2: Click on option, for word document it will be rename with Word option, Excel option…act,

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Step 3: Hit the click on option that you will see second window on your document, than the save minute option under the save tab.

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GO Save Option > Save > Check box for save auto save information for in minute. You can set minimum 1 minute. Set it as min as possible.

Step 3: Click Ok. Finish

For Manual save Document

If you want to save your document manually, on before and after auto save time period you can do with Ctrl + S from your keyboard.

Related question covered,
How to set office auto save time in settings?
Steps to save document on auto save time
How to set manually time for auto save?
How to decrease auto save document in Microsoft office?


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