Hi Paul, thanks for the info.

Good news: I have found an .asd file, it was created just 10 mins before word crashed!

Bad news: I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do with this asd file. Word doesn't repair my original file automatically and when I try to open the asd file within word, I get the message that this type of file isn't supported.

Isn't it a file that is created by word, how come it's unsupported. On the site you linked me to there is a way to force office to recover the file by opening it, closing office, restarting my pc and then open word again, but that gave me a file from three days ago. Why oh why does microsoft always have a trick up their sleeve that average people like me can't have any clue about...

EDIT: I GOOGLED AND FOUND OUT ALREADY!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH PAUL, YOU SAVED MY DAY AND PERHAPS EVEN MY WEEK OR MONTH!

For anyone else interested in the .asd mystery, it's possible to open that file type with the textediting program part of open office!