I made changes that I didn't want to keep to a Word document that I thought had already been saved. I closed it without saving thinking when I opened it again later I could get back the document as I wanted it to be.

But it hadn't been saved.

Can you recover a document even after you've closed it and said "no" when it asks if you want to save?

I don't know if 2007 has this or if its a 2010 feature, but do you have an option to go to File, Info, and there's a box that says manage versions, and if you click that you can select recover unsaved documents...again I don't know for sure if thats in 2007 or not, but thought I would suggest you check.

Hi JO'BN,

I think that feature is only for recovering files lost during crashes. If you intentionally close a document without saving the edits, there's nothing to recover.

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Paul Edstein
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Hi
If you have autosave turned on then, potentially you may be able to recover the last autosaved version. However this is only available whilst MS Word is still open as I think that once Word is closed then all autosaved versions are deleted.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Tony(OTPM)