

Generally, the best practice when writing any document is to ensure you’re saving every few minutes to avoid losing all your hard work in one fell swoop. It’s worth trying to create a new document and saving it in your usual fashion to see if that solves the problem. Similarly, the original document you’ve been using as a template may be corrupted, which could be why it hasn’t been saving properly. Bill Gates: A Microsoft icon (Photo: TIMOTHY A.

As you’ve been using an older document as the basis for lots of newer ones, there’s a chance you’ve accidentally selected ‘Save As’ and overwritten the correct document or saved as a copy. I haven't been able to find any Autosave documents or backups. I'd very much appreciated any guidance on what might have gone wrong and how I can open my file again in Word. I've been able to open it with OpenOffice, but the formatting has gone awry. The most likely scenario is that you haven’t been saving the document properly. Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line:0, Column:0. My copy had been clearly changed, along with the hard copy I had saved.

One client opened the report attachment on their phone in Gmail and found the header and footer from an older version. I save the document in Word throughout before printing it as a hard copy to sign and send to my clients. I use Microsoft Word to compile my new work reports by modifying previously written documents, which require new header and footer sections, as well as the main body of the report.
