[politicket]

What version of Word?

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[Cringing Negativism Network]

If she plugs the thumb drive back in, does the file show in the recycle bin?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I’m not a computer genius by any stretch but, you said she saved her work to her flash drive? Try a reboot then insert the flash drive and it should come up.

[oh8eleven]

Some suggestions here ...

[Nat Turner]

download winhex on the main pc. Then install it, then run a search based on the name of the file or data in it. Chances are key portions of that file have be destroyed but you should be able to resurrect most of it, which you can cut and paste into a new file. Hope that helps

[martin_fierro]

I'm no good at trying to help over the telephone; plus there are no phones

Then that works out well for everyone, dunnit.

[livius]

She may have thought she was saving to her thumb drive but actually have been saving to another directory on her laptop.

If she just tells Word to open a document and then mouses over the name of her document (which will be there if she saved it anywhere), that will bring up the path, which is the full location of the document (disk, directory, subdirectory, etc.). In any case, Word knows where it is, so she can just click on it to open it again, and then “save as” to her F drive (or whatever letter her thumb drive is on).

If she didn’t save it at all, then it won’t appear on the list in Word.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

plug thumb drive back in, open a new word doc and then click FILE, click the arrows at the bottomto open up all options in that dropdown and recent docs should show up at the bottom.

Hope that helps.

[ViLaLuz]

Put the thumb drive back in the computer. Go back into Word, > File on the menu bar > Recent Documents (at the bottom of the list). See if the file is listed and can be opened from Recent Documents.