In the new Document window, the Document Recovery pane will show you the document you were recently working on with an AutoRecovered tag.
Launch Microsoft Word app on your Windows 10 PC.
Let us see how to recover an unsaved Word document on Windows 10 from AutoRecover. The AutoRecover feature on Microsoft Word comes handy to help in such situations. Even the Recent Documents may not list them. In such cases, you will not be able to get the autosave version. Sometimes, you start working on a Word document without saving at least once. Recover Unsaved Word Document from AutoRecover If the file was unsaved, you could try your luck with the auto recover option on the Microsoft Word app. This will work if you have saved the document file at least once.
Now you can save the word document and continue working.
Click on the latest autosave version from the “ Document Recovery” pane.
It will open up the Document with Document Recovery Pane.