Please update your profice so we can tell what operating system and Word version you're using.

Word wouldn't have wanted to send the file to Microsoft; just information about the crash. Neither a System Restore, or Office Repair/Reinstall would have been appropriate. Simply re-starting your system and letting Word auto-recover should have been enough.



As for what you've done since, the only way to recover your work is by restoring it from a known good backup.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]