Users of MS Word often need to perform Microsoft Word Recovery to repair the corrupt documents. The need to repair Word documents comes when MS Word’s AutoRecover feature is failed to recover the lost data after sudden system shut down, sudden application exit, or any other such reason. Most of the times it happens that you are working on MS Word file and suddenly you get an error message asking you to close the application.

As soon as you close the application and restart it, MS Word auto recovers the document you were working on to help you minimize the data loss. However, in some cases, Auto recovery is not performed. At that time, you can manually access the auto recover files by executing the below mentioned processes:

1. Searching the Auto recover files
2. Opening the Auto recover files

Searching the Auto Recovery files

Execute the below given steps to find Auto Recovery MS Word files in your computer’s hard disk:

1.Click Start > Search.
2.In the search box, type *.ASD.
3.Select the All Files and Folders option.
4.Select My Computer beside the Look In box.
5.Click the Search button.

Once the search process is started, wait for the process to be finished. After the process is finished, locate the lost document in the recovered .asd files. If you find the file then execute the next process.

Opening the Auto Recover files

Listed below are the steps that explain the process of opening the Auto Recover files:

1.Start MS Word > click office button > Open.
2.Type *.* beside the File of Type box.
3.Locate the recovered *.asd file.
4.Click the Open button.

This is how you can recover the lost Word document manually. However, there is no surety that Word’s AutoRecover feature will help performing Microsoft Word Recovery. This feature is beneficial only when you are unable to locate the lost document. In case, you can access the Word document but cannot open it, then you have to perform Word recovery.

Using Recoveryfix for Word can help performing Microsoft Word Recovery in an efficient manner. The software executes the meticulous scan on the corrupt Word documents to repair them recover the lost data. The software supports all types of Word documents, such as doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx, .docm, and .dotm files. Apart from this the software supports MS Word 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000.