Retrieve Lost Document in Microsoft Word 2003

Microsoft Word 2003 has gained huge popularity because of its ultimate features. Even though it is an older version of Microsoft Word application, one can find people still using MS Word 2003 version. Unfortunately, just like other files users my loss documents in Microsoft Word 2003. If you miss essential MS Office 2003 Word file that has valuable or confidential information, then it will become a depressing situation.

You may come across instance wherein Microsoft Word 2003 application suddenly stops responding due to any logical errors or sudden system shutdown while working on some Word document and made you to terminate it abnormally. In such events, there is a possibility of losing Word file that is currently opened in it. However, MS Word 2003 user can find disappeared Word files by using below mentioned steps:

• Click on “Start” button and type Word file name in “Search Box” – If you come across your document from list displayed, then open it
• From above step if you did not find lost Word document, then
• Click on “Start” button and enter *.doc or *.docx in “Search Box” and try to locate your Word file

In case you did not get lost Word 2003 document from above steps, then try to restore lost Word document in Microsoft Word 2003 using following steps:

• Go to “Tools” menu, click on “Options”
• Select “File Locations” tab, double-click “AutoRecover files”, note the path and hit on “Cancel” option and then press “Close” button.
• Close Microsoft Word 2003
• Locate the AutoRecover file location
• See for Word files whose names end in .asd (AutoRecover files).
• If you find your lost Word document, then double-click it to open it. And save it immediately

Even these steps did not help you to find out lost Word documents then it might gone behind manual recovery. One may also lose Word documents in Microsoft Word 2003 due to various factors like malicious virus attacks, third party apps installed in Windows PC, interruptions while moving Word files from system to other storage devices, hard drive corruption, etc. After reading various causes for loss of Word files in MS Word 2014; you may be perhaps puzzled regarding recovery of lost Word documents in Microsoft Word 2003. Isn’t it?? Okay, it is highly possible to restore missing documents in Word 2003 using accurate file retrieval tool.

Lost Word 2003 document recovery tool:

Yodot File Recovery software is best in restoring lost documents in Microsoft Word 2003 application as a result of various factors on Windows system. Apart from getting back lost documents, user can also extract accidentally deleted Word files from system hard drive, pen drive, memory card, etc easily. The most benefited feature of this file restoration application is that it can retrieve other MS Office files such as PowerPoint files, Excel files, Access File, Outlook data files along with PDF files, media files, ZIP files and many more file types from Windows hard drive. This tool supports various version of MS Word application; thereby it is capable of recovering Microsoft Word 2010 documents along with Word 2003, Word 2002, Word 2000 and Word 2007 files. This file recovery tool can be easily installed on Windows computer running with Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008 operating systems.

Simple steps to restore lost Word documents in Microsoft Word 2003:

• Download Yodot File Recovery program in Windows system
• Install the software and run it with the help of given instructions
• From the main window, click on “Lost File Recovery” option to get back lost Word files in Microsoft Word 2003
• And then proceed to next screen where you can select Windows partition or drive from where MS Word 2003 documents have to be restored
• Afterwards, in subsequent screen select file types that you want to recover
• Now, click on Next button that will start Word 2003 file recovery by scanning selected partition
• Once scanning process gets finished, user can view list of files in “Data View” or “File Type View”
• Select your desired Word files and specify new destination location to save retrieved Word 2003 documents in Windows computer

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