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I downloaded an essay for editing earlier today, worked on it for roughly four hours, and the program crashed. Many changes have been made since the download.

I haven't once saved the document so it's in the temporary files. Is there a way to recover the file with the saved changes?

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Did you download the file to a folder on your Desktop (or somewhere else)? Word should have created a temporary file, it should also ask you to restore it if you start it again. – slhck May 6 '11 at 4:56
Also, see if you can find it here: /Users/username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office version AutoRecovery/Autorecovery save of filename – slhck May 6 '11 at 4:59
I opened the temporary file directly from word, so the file was not on the desktop, but the temporary file folder. I believe word doesn't save if it's in that file? – Paddy Johnson May 6 '11 at 5:00
There is an autorecovery file saved at 12:36. I assume this means that if I force quit word, I'll be able to recover it? – Paddy Johnson May 6 '11 at 5:08
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Nice, please accept my answer below so this post is closed! – slhck May 6 '11 at 5:18
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Office for Mac should save autorecovery files at /Users/username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office version AutoRecovery/Autorecovery save of filename.

If Word is still running or hanging you need to quit it before trying to open the autorecovered file.

And that all being said, press Cmd+S a bit more often! It's Word for Mac, after all.

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