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  1. Office does save files every 10 minutes by default in a weird location. It doesn’t always work. But you can try it.

  2. Open a file navigation window (not internet browser)

  3. navigate to the folder
    C:\Users\first.last\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word
    Where “first.last” is your username on this computer.
    ”Word” is the name of the program you were working on (Word, Powerpoint, etc)

  4. Look for a file starting with ~ OR “AutoRecovery”
    For example

    1. “~WRA3759”

    2. ”AutoRecovery save of Document1”

    3. If you don’t see that, then try whatever file is in that folder.

  5. Open this file and hope for the best.

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