Recover Corrupted Documents

Yesterday, while I was writing a report in MS Word, the electricity got interrupted and the file I was working on, got corrupted. When the power resumed and I started back, I was not able to access that file as it was corrupted due to sudden failure of power.

This was a new thing to me, because in my earlier PC, whenever such a thing happened, I was able to recover my corrupt file, thanks to the Auto recovery feature of MS Word. I was intrigued, why it has not happened this time.

On further exploration, I found that the auto recover feature, which is set to ON by default, was OFF in my machine. So, I decided to write a post on this so that the readers of this blog may not find themselves in a situation like me.

How to set the auto recover feature in Word:

* Go to Tools menu, click Options.
* Click on the Save tab.
* Check the “Save auto recover info every” check box.
* Set the time to 5 minutes (or any time period as per your liking)
* Click on OK, and you are through.
* Auto recovery in MS Word
* But remember, Auto recovery function is not a replacement of Save function. For that you have to use the usual procedure, or Ctrl+S.