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Old 08-24-2017, 03:16 PM
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I have been reviewing and editing a big (56-page) Word document over the past few days. Change tracking has been on, and I have made quite a number of tracked changes and inserted quite a few comments. I hit Save (Cmd-S) frequently, including at the end of each editing session. I keep the document (and Word) open all the time. Sometimes I have been working on other Word docs with the big document in the background.

I hadn't worked on the big document for 2 days. I just brought it back to the front a few minutes ago to start editing and commenting again, and all of my tracked changes and comments have disappeared - completely gone.

I used Time Machine to check a few past versions of the document, and all my changes were gone in those as well.

Here's something that might be relevant: Word has been crashing a LOT in the past few days. I will double-click on a document in Finder to open it; it will open for a split second, then Word will crash. That happened yesterday. Word sent a report about the crash then restarted and reopened all docs. That could be when all my changes were lost - but I had Saved the document - I'm 100% sure of that.



HELP!!! I'm afraid all my edits are gone for good - unless one of you has a magic suggestion.
Can you anybody recommend a way to recover all my edits?

Do you have any idea why this happened, and how I might be able to prevent it from happening again?

Version: Word for Mac 2011 14.7.6

Note: I have a deadline to complete my review of this document and I lost three days of work. I'm desperate to get an answer. I submitted this question to more than one forum.
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Old 08-24-2017, 06:56 PM
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If you have both the revised document and the original, you can use Word's 'Compare' tool to identify the changes. It won't help with any lost comments, but you'll at least be able to identify the changes.
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