You should, if any, see some files that look slightly ghostly.

Now go back to the folder where the word document is, or was, 'Documents/My Documents' or even your Desktop.

Under 'Hidden files and folders' check the circle 'Show hidden files, folders and drives'. If you're not familiar with doing this, here are the steps: ThanksДЄlso, if this helps- I tried to save another Document and MSW says 'Word cannot complete this save due to a file permission error'ДЇirst, you need to view hidden files and folders. I don't think I can redo the project correctly in the time it is due! Please any info will help. Through Microsoft forums I've repeatedly tried the 'Recover Text from any File' and 'Open and Repair' methods The files were still there but the all of text was completely gone! The very next day I went to open the project and both the original documents and the copied ones were COMPLETELY EMPTY!!! I gave up and closed the Documents folder and turned off my computer In my frustration I attempted to move it over and over again to no avail I went to Documents and attempted to move the new documents into the folder with the originals but an error message reading something like 'this action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program' when the file was NOT open Seeing that, I copied the the text and saved them in new documents I then worked on them the next day not realizing that for some reason they were opened as 'Read Only' I worked on 2 documents, saved them in a folder, and then closed MSWord To better understand the problem here were the chain of events: I then went to go open it the next day and all of the text was completely gone!! I am only a beginner when it comes to computers so I have absolutely no idea what happened. So I am officially desperate! I worked on a project in Microsoft Word 2007.

Word document missing text