How To Search A Document For A Word On Mac

I looked everywhere online and have FINALLY found the answer to retrieving your lost document EVEN if AutoRecovery did not save it. How to activate spell checking on outlook for mac. This is free with no external software needed, you just need to follow these quick couple steps. So If you did as everyone else said and found the folder 'Office 2008/09/11 AutoRecovery' and your file is still NOT there, that means it is being stored in your computers Temporary or '-Tmp-' folder. The '-Tmp-' folder is very hard to find, even if you have made hidden folders visible, so what you need to do is go to 'Applications'- 'Utilities'- 'Terminal' Once you are in the terminal copy this phrase: 'open $TMPDIR' and press ENTER. That will open your Temporary files folder where you will see another folder named 'Temporaryitems' Open up the 'Temporaryitems' folder and you will find your lost file, that even AutoRecovery could not find.

However when you do find your file, make sure you open up the document with 'TextEdit' because a.tmp file will not work with Word. An example name of your lost document will be 'WordWorkfile D-57238.tmp' I spent hours on the internet looking for a solution and this is the only way I have actually been able to find the lost or unsaved file. I hope this helps and I can save everyone some extra hours of time. Many thanks, msw103! I took your advice and paid the big bucks (worth it to me) for 'uFlysoft,' and it worked.

I am most relieved, because I had DAYS of work into a highly technical report that must get published in a few weeks, and I thought it lost forever. I lost it by reopening my MacBook Air late last night and closing a few Word docs just to get them out of the way. I was presented with a message from Word asking if I want to 'revert to the save document,' and I selected 'OK,' which was a BIG mistake.

Earlier version of word for mac free. All I had left was the name of the doc, but not one scrap of my new work. I tell this story as a cautionary tale.

You can find the editing time on a document multiple ways. For Word 2016 for Windows, Click File Menu > Info tab in Backstage. Under the Properties column, it will list the “Total Editing Time”. For help with Word: On the Menu bar, click Help and search for features, commands, and help articles. Or search online at Bing, Google, or support.office.com. Or search online at Bing, Google, or support.office.com.