Obviously, Auto Recover or AutoSave function we have seen above are only helpful if you had actually turned on the Auto recovery feature and you lost your document earlier than 4 days ago. If you re-launch Word and you don't see the Auto Recover documents, you can search for the temporary file in Windows search or go to the Temp Folder from Windows Explorer to find it. You can then proceed to save the document for editing later. The documents are often on the left side of the new Word window and you can just double click on either one of them to open it. You can get the Auto Recover documents when you re-launch Word.
