OK, so our friend WingDing had a Computer Emergency the other day. She typed out a long document, carefully saving the document every paragraph or so, to make sure she didn't lose anything (sometimes I wish I had done that more religiously).

Then, she hit a key that made all her typing disappear, and she doesn't know what she did to make it do that. She couldn't find the missing text, so she shut her computer down and figured she could call for help the next morning. When she closed Word, it asked if she wanted to save the document, and she chose "yes" and saved the two remaining sentences - thereby writing over the document she had so carefully saved so often before. If she had just closed the document without saving, or if she had tried CTRL-Z a few times, all that work might have been saved.

I got to her house a few days later, and searched her computer for any trace of the missing typings. I checked deleted documents, temp files, and under "Versions" in Word - nothing. I searched her computer for distinctive phrases she remembered - nothing.

Is there anywhere else I should have looked, or was the document lost when she saved two sentences over the previously saved document?

-Joe-