It will have happened to all of us at least once in our lives when we are working in our Word 2013 word processor and for no apparent reason, the same It closes unexpectedly. The worst of all could be that the entire operating system also restarts, something that can be a big problem if we have not saved the document we were working with before this event.
We could come to think that all this work that we were doing in Word 2013 was definitively lost, something that may be the case, although There is a slight possibility that we can get it back until the last letter where we are left writing in this word processor. This is due to the fact that Microsoft came to place the well-known "self-recording" in its office suite, which means that each period of time an automatic saving of everything we are writing there is recorded. In a very easy and simple way we will tell you how you should proceed to be able to recover the document that you did not save previously.
Navigate to a location in Word 2013
It is worth clarifying to the reader that the procedure has a good percentage of effectiveness, although depending on each case, an adverse situation may exist, that is, due to some serious failure of the operating system. our "unsaved" file cannot be recovered in any moment. In any case, it is always worth trying to use any type of tricks or recommendations, something that we will suggest below to do exclusively in Word 2013 and using Windows 8.1 as the operating system.
- We start our Windows operating system.
- Later we headed towards the Starting screen and we write the word «Word«.
- Our Word 2013 office suite will immediately appear in the results.
- We just have to select it for it to run instantly.
- Once the interface of our word processor is shown to our eyes, we must select «create a new document«.
What we have mentioned above can be considered the first part of the procedure, something that we have suggested exclusively as a working environment for Windows 8.1 and logically, for our Word 2013 word processor; Now we will proceed with the core part of the trick, which suggests the following steps to follow:
- We select the option of «Archives» from the menu bar at the top left of the Word 2013 interface.
- Once there, the left sidebar will immediately appear.
- From the options there we now have to select the one that says «Information«.
- Towards the right side a few options will appear automatically.
- Of all of them we select the last one, which says «Manage Versions«.
- When selecting said drawer (or option) 2 additional alternatives will be displayed.
- We have to choose the first one, the same one that says «recover unsaved documents«.
- A file explorer window will immediately open.
We will stop for a moment at this last step that we have suggested to explain a little what we could find in this place; Firstly, at the top (blue) is located the address and route to which the place where we have arrived through this procedure belongs, which you can use to be able to go manually at any time. What really interests us for now is to select one of the files that could appear in this window.
Each of these files does not have a well-defined name, since let us remember that they belong to Word 2013 documents that we were working on and that, however, we did not manage to save them, so They do not have an established name but rather, a kind of code that Microsoft has given randomly in its word processor.
To have a better guide to which file to choose at this time, we may need to take as reference the date this file was generated, data that must coincide with the moment in which the mishap that we mentioned at the beginning occurred, that is, the closing of Word or the unexpected restart of Windows.