Steam system requirements for mac. In Word 2007, from the Office Button menu, select Word Options. Then, from the toolbar on the left, click Save to configure AutoRecover options. In Word 2003, from the Tools menu, select Options. In Mac OS X versions of Word, from the Word menu, select Preferences. In the window that opens, click the Save tab, icon, or list item.

I need to recover an earlier version of a word document for mac 2011 that was corrupted. The file that I was working suddenly became full of asterisks. Apparently it was corrupted in this way. I wrongly had the idea to restart the computer, so I closed the file (and saved with the asterisks under the same name) and opened the document again.

The document is full of asterisks. Word never crushed, so there was no Autorecovery save of version of this document. No back up in dropbox or the like, and Time Machine was off!

Any idea of how to access to an earlier version of the same file? Many thanks Tomas.

You can hardly find a computer user who never experienced either a crash of MS Office apps, or an unexpected power-down of their Mac, or Mac computer crash, leading to loss of unsaved MS Office (Word, Excel) documents. Instead of redoing all the work that was lost, just grab a copy of Disk Drill and that are highly possible to still be available. Disk Drill can help even when MS Office keeps loading an incorrect version of the document you were working on. Launch Disk Drill, find the partition/logical volume within the main system disk where MS Office is installed, click Recover to run all the recovery methods, or head on to Deep Scan right away. But we don't want to miss out on Quick Scan either.

Depending on exact timing and cause of the crash, it's possible that Quick Scan may pick the temporary file as well, and potentially in a better condition than the one recovered by Deep Scan. It's important to highlight the peculiarity of the problem discussed here. As soon as your active Word, Excel file is closed, the AutoRecovery document (the one that may contain a full copy of the document at the last moment of editing before a crash), is actually deleted by MS Office. Let's say it another way, the AutoRecovery snapshots are temporary and only exist if Word or Excel apps terminate abnormally. If Word thinks everything is 'hunky dory' when it closes, then the AutoRecovery file is immediately deleted. And this is exactly where Disk Drill gets into play!