How To Recover An Unsaved Word Document Recovering Deleted Word Documents Hit File > Options > Save and change the number of minutes to ensure you have a recoverable version of all your docs available if you need to recover Word documents in the future. You can update the frequency with which Microsoft Word autosaves your document files. Open the recovered Word document and hit the Save As button in the top banner.
The good news is, this difficulty is so common that Microsoft has made it easy to recover unsaved Word documents: We rely massively on autosaves, yet vast chunks of progress and full versions of documents can be lost when we don’t manually save our work.
