If you have the 'backup copy' option selected in Word, there might be a backup copy of the file. Word backup file names have a '.wbk' extension. If the search results don't contain the file, go to the next method. Try searching for the document in Windows: To find a lost document: Search for Word documents If you can’t open the document, or the content in the document is damaged, see How to troubleshoot damaged documents in Word.
If you're looking for information about how to recover other recent Office files, see the following articles:
You can try to recover an unsaved Word document by:
