Recover a file you didn't save in Office 2010 and 2013

Did you know that in Office 2010 & 2013 you can recover a file you never saved?   

There are a few stipulations:

1. You must recover it within a few days of when you created it.
2. Your Office program must have Auto-Recover turned on.
3. The elapsed time between creating the file and closing the file must be greater than the Auto-Recover time set.

 First, let's set up Auto-Recover:

1. Open your Office 2010 or 2013 program, i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
2. Click File (tab) > Options.
3. Click Save in the left Navigation Pane. 
4. Verify there is a check in "Save AutoRecover information every __ minutes."  Set the number from 5 to 10 minutes.  This is the amount of time that elapses before your program will recover the file. Also check the box "Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving."
5. Click OK at the bottom of the window.

Now you can recover a file by following the steps below:

1. Open the program in which you created the file (that you didn't save).
2. Do ONE of the following:
1. Office 2010 - click File (tab) > Recent
2. Office 2013 - click File (tab)> Open
3. At the bottom of the window, click Recover Unsaved Documents. 
   
4. A window will open showing all unsaved documents for the past few days.
5. Select the file and click Open.