So I, being dumb, decided to open my history essay in emacs and tried to edit a word. So I removed a letter from my introduction, and I saved it. The next time I opened the file in word, it said my file was corrupted and I had to repair it, so I clicked the repair button. Now MS Word is not responding, and I can only see a draft in spotlight that I had previously saved yesterday night.
Is there any way to expedite the process of "recovering" the word file, given that I only changed one letter in the main document xml file?
I realize that there are many answers regarding corrupted microsoft word files. My question is specifically about files that were not "corrupted", just externally changed but that are still perfectly valid.