Unfortunately, these generous and comprehensive tips don't work for my wife's WORD 2007. Maybe things have changed after six years! And WORD won't prompt for, or open, its own ASD files as advertised. The solution is much more complicated. Bad Microsoft! All it would require to make things simple is that WORD would recognise the ASD format (its own format) and open it. Is that so difficult? Thanks anyhow to everyone who wrote here, trying to help. (In the end, I had to use the 'recover text from any file' and still found that WORD couldn't reliably recover its own ASD file, self-created only six hours previously. It was eventually able to read it, but with errors. Why on earth wouldn't any software be able to read its very own autorecovery files? It's beyond me.)
anonymous
2009-03-07 18:02:48 UTC
You are making a dangerous assumption. Do you think the files are stored on the open menu? they should all be stored in your documents folder, unless you never saved them, in which case the autosave file is instantly deleted. If you did save it it will be in your documents. I do not know why these are not showing in the menu, they normally remain there until replaced by later files, even if you delete the originals. They are nothing to do with the files themselves, just the remembered shortcuts to those files.