Need help recovering document from Microsoft Word

self

[proud American in Canada]

Hi,

I was hoping someone knows a way to recover a document in Microsoft Word.

When the pc shut down improperly, Word saved a copy of the document as it was at the time I shut down, and it asked me if I wanted to view it again. I clicked on the wrong button and the document was replaced--meaning I'd lost hours of work (and I know, I had saved, but I can't seem to find this document anywhere. I have no idea what I did, if I saved it under some other file, or what).

I don't know if the document goes to the recycle bin, but when I click on the recycle bin I get a strange error message.

Does anyone know another way, from with Word, maybe, to recover a deleted document?

[PastorBooks]

If you do find the file but Word says it's corrupted, there is a possible solution. OpenOffice does a great job of opening corrupted Word files. Within the past year a Microsoft exec was giving a speech and his file locked up and couldn't open. As he went on talking an MS guy in the back was able to load up the file using OpenOffice and re-saved it as a .doc -- that often does the trick.

OpenOffice both saves and loads Word .doc, and is free and open-source:
www.openoffice.org