Revert to an older revision in Microsoft Word?

Ouch. I’ve done that before; hate when that happens.
Um. I assume she hasn’t saved an older version of the Word file somewhere else, like a Flash drive? Other than that, there is a small chance Word may have a temp file of it hidden somewhere. I know when my computer has crashed in the middle of writing a Word document, the program prompts me asking me if I want to keep any of the versions it had recently autosaved. However it usually deletes the other files after you choose which one you want. I have no idea where it stores this file information, though.

Good luck to your friend! I hope it wasn’t their term paper.

In my experience, too, you’re probably screwed unless there was a backup file somewhere else. I’ll be interested to hear if anyone else has a positive solution.

I concur. Overwrite + no backup copy = screwed

Next time a computer asks, “Are you sure?”, don’t just click the button to get rid of the dialog box. It is a warning, and if you deliberately ignore a warning then you have to accept the consequences… in this case, a lost file.

Everybody cross your fingers and hope she was running Apple Time Machine
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html

In Windows you can poke around and sometimes find that Word is saving temp files with nonsense names like Tmp#$#234.doc (this is from memory, but you get the idea). I do not know if there is a Mac equivalent.

Get rid of Word and switch to Open Office.

openoffice.org

@Blondesjon – open office is garbage. You are limited to what you can do with it.

@xBRIANx So far, I have yet to really run up against any of those limits except when doing stuff that MS Office can’t do either. And for the price, you really can’t complain too much, though I gotta admit that if I spent a few hundred dollars I would be a bit disappointed. Hell, for what MS charges, I would expect at least two blowjobs to be included in the price!

@jerv . . . I hope you mean with the purchase.

@Blondesjon Yes, thanks for the correction.
Of course, that would assume that all computer users are male, so we’d have to make alternate arrangements for t female MSO purchasers to be fair, but the point remains that I personally would expect a side order of sexual gratification considering that I could get OpenOffice and at least two prostitutes for the MSRP of MS Office.

i feel like people are missing a major issue here – reverting a file on a PC takes 5 seconds. click-click-click and you’re done. i know the file structure of a macintosh COULD support such a feature, but it just doesn’t (as far as i can tell). Why is that? Because Apple doesn’t want their users to have any REAL control over their products. Apple still owns your computer, and all the files on it. You’re just leasing it.

@newmacuser Welcome to Fluther.

I do have a question for you, since this original post was never fully answered. If it really is so easy to revert a file on a PC, can you enlighten us how one were to do that?

Just a bit of advice: The Social section would be a better place to debate about whether PCs or Macs are better, not on a post where someone wants to solve a specific problem.