Recovered unsaved versions are automatically deleted after four days.
You can now recover documents after you accidentally close without saving, even if you had never saved the document.
● Tor recover drafts of documents that were never saved, click the File tab on the Ribbon to open the new Microsoft Office Backstage™ view. Then, on the Info tab, click Manage Versions as shown here.
● Access up to the last five autosave versions of your previously saved active document from the Info tab in Backstage view. By default, the last autosave version remains available temporarily if you close the document without saving.
Note: Recovering available unsaved documents and autosave versions requires you elect to save AutoRecover information. To keep an autosave version until your next editing session you must also elect to keep the last autosaved version when you close without saving. To access these options, in Backstage view click Options and then click Save.