There are plenty a lot og features in MS word, but are not known to many and is often confusing. In my experience of using Word, here what I found out!
The most basic thing is to save your work, at least once in 5 minutes. Though there is an auto save option, always expect the unexpected the unexpected.
There is this Auto Recovery option in word, Which saves your work every 10 minutes and can be recovered in case of sudden a crash or battery loss… It generally pops up to the left side in the word document the next time you open it.
But, if this does not come up you can very well recover your file by going to File > Options > Save > AutoRecover file location.
You can go to this destination to access your file! You could also change the auto recovery time period too (the red box above)!
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