retriving perivious versions of document

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I accidently saved a new document under the name of an
old document and so all the information i had in the old
document is gone. Is there any way to get back the old
document?
 
If you have "Automatically create backup copy" enabled on the Save tab of
Tools | Options, then display All Files and look for a "Backup of
<filename>.wbk" file, which will be the previous version of that document
(unfortunately, this will be one version back since you saved a new document
under an old name; if you'd resaved the document itself when intending to
Save As, you'd have the current version of the old document). If you don't
have this option enabled, then now you see why it would have been a good
idea.

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