If you close a Word document without saving, you may be able to recover the unsaved version from within Word. By going to File > Info and looking at Manage Versions, you can see previous autosaved versions listed by time and date and click to open the one from before you closed without saving. Alternatively, going to File > Recent may show the missing file, or a link for Recover Unsaved Documents at the bottom of the screen could reveal where it was autosaved.

1. If you lose a Word file without saving, you can recover it. Open the most recent version in
Word and click on the “File” tab, and “Info,” then look in the middle of the screen and go to the
bottom of the middle section.
See where it says “Manage Versions” and to the right under “Versions” it may say something
like “Today at 3:25 AM (when I closed without saving)”
Click on that link and your missing file magically reappears.
Another tactic:
Open any Word file, click on the “File” tab, and “Recent,” then look at all the recently opened
Word files that appear. If the missing file is not in that list under “Recent Documents”, look all
the way on the bottom right side of the screen for a little link that says “Recover Unsaved
Documents” Click there and perhaps your missing file is hiding there.