You're reading from Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks Discover better ways of creating, customizing, and troubleshooting your documents

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800565432

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Microsoft Word

Concepts

Document Preparation

Authors (2):

Bill Kulterman

Heather Ackmann

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Working More Efficiently, Together or Alone with Word

2. Chapter 1: There Is No One Word FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Others Remotely (Sharing and Collaboration)

4. Chapter 3: Reviewing Documents Remotely

5. Chapter 4: Concentrating Better with Microsoft Word

6. Section 2: Making Sense of Formatting Short and Long Documents

7. Chapter 5: Working with Short Documents

8. Chapter 6: Lists and Characters

9. Chapter 7: Structuring Long Documents for Better Organization

10. Chapter 8: Saving Time and Ensuring Consistency with Styles

11. Chapter 9: Working Faster with Automation

12. Chapter 10: Working with Illustrations, Charts, and Tables

13. Chapter 11: Writing for Everyone – Understanding Document Accessibility

14. Section 3: Help! Word Is Being Strange! Troubleshooting Common Problems

15. Chapter 12: Formatting Problems – Too Much Space

16. Chapter 13: Transforming Annoying Automation

17. Chapter 14: Fixing Frustrating Numbers and Bullet Lists

18. Chapter 15: Stuck Like Glue – Word's Deceptively Simple Paste Options

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Retrieving unsaved documents

If you haven't saved a document to OneDrive or one of the other cloud options, you might experience a situation where you lose your unsaved documents. Word has an AutoRecover feature that can help you avoid such a disaster.

When disaster strikes

There are many reasons why a document's changes could be lost. Word could have experienced a crash, closing suddenly before you saved the document, or your computer could have crashed or lost power, causing you to lose your work. Whatever the reason, Word can help by recovering the changes you made the last time AutoRecover saved the document.

Once you've experienced a crash or lost a document due to Word closing abruptly, you will need to open that document again. At this point, the Document Recovery panel should be open on the left, and you should see a list of recovered versions of the document, along with the original, which is the last saved version.

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