It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

Sometime earlier, we learned the simple technique of changing the Save AutoRecover information time limit in Word. AutoRecover feature, as you know, comes in handy when there are any unplanned ...

If you're using Microsoft Word and the document fails to save, how do you recover it? It could be a system crash, the power fails, or your laptop battery suddently dies. Whatever the scenario, if ...

When you run a Microsoft Office program such as Word after forgetting to save a document, the program automatically lists autosaved files in the Recovery pane. Once you close this pane, the list ...

When opening Microsoft Word (or PowerPoint or Excel) files from the local drive, Office users may get a prompt stating – The Document Recovery task pane contains some recovered files that have not ...

You may be able to recover an unsaved Microsoft Word document if the document is closed in some fashion without being saved. There are multiple methods for recovering an unsaved Word document, but no ...

An Editor in Chief at Oxford University Press writes in a tip for capturing unsaved document changes if Microsoft Word freezes: If I'm not sure I have saved recently enough, I take a screen shot ...

Is there any way to recover a TextEdit document I deleted accidentally? Help! It can be a chilling moment when you realise that the important document you’ve been working on has suddenly disappeared.

So you've been doing your taxes yourself on your computer for years, but now you've got old tax software files from 1999 that no program you own can read. Rather than scouring Ebay for old versions of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Microsoft has released a new file recovery app that might ...