How to Recover an Old Version of a Word Document

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    • 1). Locate the Word document file on your computer.

    • 2). Right click the file and choose “Properties” from the menu. This will open up a “Properties” window.

    • 3). Navigate to the “Previous Versions” tab in the “Properties” window.

    • 4). Click “Restore previous versions” and allow your computer to search for shadow copies of your Word document. Previous versions of the document recorded by the system recovery will appear in the window.

    • 5). Click once on the old version of the document to highlight it.

    • 6). Click the “Open” button if you want to view the file and review the document’s content before restoring.

    • 7). Click the “Restore” button to recover the old version of the word document. This will overwrite the current version of the Word document, so if you want to keep both versions, you will need to make a backup of the current version under a different file name.

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