Important notes regarding Microsoft Word for Mac file recovery: • Word for Mac temporarily saves documents that the user has not yet saved themselves in a 'Recovered items' folder, located in the Trash. If there are no recovered files, this folder will not appear. • Word for Mac saves a copy of the unsaved document named as Word Work File in a Temporary folder. • Word for Mac includes an AutoRecovery option.

It is turned on by default. The app will automatically save a copy of an open Word file every 10 minutes. If Word freezes while you're working on a document, or if the computer crashes, you can use the AutoRecovery copy to recover unsaved Word document with the changes or additions that you made in your last Word for Mac session. Recover Unsaved Word Documents on Mac (3 Ways) Recover from the Recovered items folder in Trash Step 1. Open the Trash by clicking the dock icon.

Look for a folder labeled Recovered items. If it is there, click into it and look for your unsaved Word file. If you cannot find it, continue on to the next possible solution. Recover from the Temporary Folder Step 1. Go to the Finder. In the header tab, select Go > Go to Folder. Type /private/var/folders and find the files named 'Word Work File' inside a 'Temporary items' folder. Step 3. Right-click the desired unsaved Word files and 'Open with.'

Can't Open (or Save) Funny File Names. Article contributed by John McGhie. OK, this is a bug, but it won't be fixed for a while, so you need to work around it. Word will refuse to open or save any files that include certain non-alphanumeric characters in their file names. Hi, I used Word 2011 to create a page with a lot of mathematical formulas in it. After two pages Word had no problem to save the document. Now I have filled about 2 and a half pages and I can't save the document anymore.

Microsoft Word. Save the Word file by clicking on File > Save As and save it to a safe location. Recover from the AutoRecovery Step 1. Close Word for Mac.

In the Format Axis dialog box, click Scale, and under Value axis scale, modify any of the following options: To change the number at which the vertical (value) axis starts or ends, for the Minimum or Maximum option, type a different number in the Minimum box or the Maximum box. Make Row 1 your X axis and Rows 2 and 3 your two Y axes. For this example, Row 3 will be our secondary axis. Create a chart with your data. Want a detailed guide to creating a chart in Excel? Otherwise, you can highlight the data you want to include in your chart and click 'Insert' on the top-lefthand corner of your navigation bar. To change the axis type to a text or date axis, under Axis Type, click Text axis or Date axis. Text and data points are evenly spaced on a text axis.

Step 2. In Finder, click on Documents in the left panel. If you don't see it use the header tab to select Go > Documents. Then open the Microsoft User Data folder. Locate all the files that start with the words 'AutoRecovery save of'. Select the one you want to recover, rename the file. Then, add the '.doc' file name extension.

Double-click the file. The document now opens in Word for Mac. Click the File menu and select Save As. Type a new name for the file into the Name field, select a folder for the file and click the Save button. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac Note: We don't recommend you try any on the market for recovering unsaved Word documents. Typically, the third-party software only helps when you at least had an original file located on your computer's hard disk or a connected flash drive, that is later missing due to accidental deletion, disk formatting, virus attack, partition loss, etc. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is not an exception in retrieving an unsaved Word document on Mac OS X.