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I know I’m not the only one who’s lost important and time-sensitive work while usingMicrosoft Word.

But sometimes, these efforts might be rendered futile.

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It’s especially worse if you’ve not enabled the autosave feature.

Just search .asd into the File Explorer under My/This PC.

The document will be there, Windows has your back!"

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Next, select theAll filesoption in the drop-down menu to find the unsaved .asd file.

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