![]() You’re shown a “How do you want to open this file?” box with as list of programs. The computer had no idea what to do with the file and the computer showed an error message. If Word crashed before you could save your document, you may see a panel called 'Document Recover' in the left side menu upon opening the app. I don’t know if I can trust using MS word anymore. Does anyone know why this would happen and how to prevent it I’m worried I’m going to lose important work. It’s a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 if that matters. You'll find it in the Windows Start menu. It happened in both a document saved to OneDrive and to a different document saved to my computer. The file was saved with a name but no extension. Method 1 Recover Unsaved Documents (PC) 1 Open Microsoft Word. In the Alaska store the problem was a missing extension, so Windows had no idea what to do with the file when it was double-clicked. OK – that’s the basics out of the way and many of you know that. These file types are setup when you install the programs. If you want to see them all go to Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | File Types to see all the associated file types on your computer. Report on Alaska Cruise.doc is the full file name with a dot separating the two.ĭOCX is for Word files as is RTF or DOC, XLSX for Excel worksheets, PPTX for Powerpoint, PUBX for Publisher files and there’s many many more. ” Report on Alaska Cruise ” is the file name and as a Microsoft Word document it has the DOC extension. This doesn’t happen by magic, each file has an extension after the file name to tell what type of file it is.įor example. Our editor-in-chief saw that problem in an Internet cafe‚ in Ketchikan, Alaska and was surprised when neither the manager of the store nor the cruise computer ‘expert’ knew the answer.Īs you probably know, Windows ‘knows’ which program to use to open each type of file, there’s little icons next to each file to denote the associated program. You’ve received a document, but when you try to open it, the file stubbornly won’t appear! We explain how to fix it.
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