To start, let's assume you've already checked your hard drive and your Recycle Bin for the file, either by the specific name or a wildcard combination, but you came up empty. Whatever the scenario, you can often recover the entire file-complete with the latest changes. In these cases, you may lose the entire Word document or just the latest changes, or the file itself may become corrupted and unreadable. Sometimes you may create or revise a document and simply forget to save it other times, your computer may freeze, crash, or otherwise hiccup, preventing your document from saving properly.
Your Word documents, like other files, can lose their way.
