Accessing files of .ASD format
Jeff Berg
I recently lost some work I was doing in Word. Fortunately my Autosave
feature was working. However, it generated an Autorecovery file in the
format .ASD. I have not been able to access it either through Word nor
directly from Windows Explorer. It does exist inside my folder
Windows/App. Data/Microsoft/Word.
Suggestions?
Suzanne S. Barnhill
This file should be opened automatically the next time you start Word after
a crash. If you have tried to access it some other way, you may already have
made it impossible to recover.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA
Jeff Berg <tsuna...@home.com> wrote in message
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Jeff Berg
Thanx, I do not understand how that works, but apparently copying the
file converted the format to a Word doc. How does this happen?
Jonathan Holmes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> To open the file, please follow these steps:
>
> 1. Start Word
> 2. Click File/Open
> 3. Browse to the folder containing the file
> 4. In the Filename box, type the following:
> *.asd
> 5. Click Open
>
> This should cause the file to appear in the list. You can then select it and
> open it in the normal way. If the file does not appear at this stage, then
> you could try finding it using the method you originally used to detect its
> presence and drag its icon from whichever window that was to the toolbar of
> any Microsoft Word window.
>
> I recommend taking a copy of the ASD file as soon as possible because Word
> sometimes deletes ASD files if it feels that they are redundant.
>
> Jonathan Holmes
> Microsoft MVP - Office