The easiest way to recover an unsaved Word document Microsoft Word is a third party app, and Apple doesn’t automatically save its documents to iCloud as it does with apps like Pages. When you need to recover Word document Mac computers don’t respond well to the retrieval process. Here, we’ll show you how to recover an unsaved Word document on Mac, and how to recover any file you think may be lost. This becomes really problematic when you forget to save a document you’ve created, or are editing, and accidentally shut Word down without saving. Though the safest way to use Word is to have it save documents automatically, most don’t save their Word files properly. Microsoft Word is a widely used app for creating text-based documents, especially for businesses. Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on Drill brings deleted files back from the dead.

If you need further assistance, contact Acrobat Technical Support. If the problem doesn't occur with the file from another application, troubleshoot the specific behavior using the documents listed in Related Content.

If the problem occurs with the file from another application, reinstall Acrobat Distiller. Then try to create a PDF file with Acrobat Distiller.

If you can't create a PDF file from the new document, use a file from another application.

Proceed to Troubleshoot Acrobat PDFMaker.

If you can create a PDF file from the new document, the problem could be related to PDFMaker.

Then try to create a PDF file from that document using the Adobe PDF printer and the Acrobat Distiller application:

If the file doesn't indicate why Acrobat Distiller couldn't create the PDF file, create a Word document that contains only a few words.

For example, if the file lists a PostScript error, troubleshoot the error according to the recommendations in Troubleshoot PostScript Errors.

If the file indicates why Acrobat Distiller couldn't create the PDF file, use the search text box on Acrobat Help and Support to search for related documents.

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