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Word document was created last Thursday and is no longer available. Discover it is now an ASD file. How can I convert this back to word (as soon as possible!)
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Word document was created last Thursday and is no longer available. Discover it is now an ASD file. How can I convert this back to word (as soon as possible!)
Only Microsoft would be stupid enough to write a program like Word that cannot even open its own damn files.
Oh, it can open .asd files??? Yeah sure, with the help of Google and copying the file into a magic directory so that Word can open it.
Dumbness sure does run deep in Redmond !!!
Word document was created last Thursday and is no longer available. Discover it is now an ASD file. How can I convert this back to word (as soon as possible!)
I had the same issue earlier this evening, had an auto-recovered file in an *.asd format and could do nothing with it. I have Word 2007 and the explanations/directions here did not work for me, but, I found another way. I copied my recovered *.asd file to my app data folder as mentioned earlier in this thread [ "(usually '%appdata%\Microsoft\Word')" credit to 1nd1g0 ], and then opened Word, made a new blank file, typed some short random text, then changed my Word settings to have it auto recover every 1 minute. With my app data folder open I was able to see when my new recovered file was created. Once I saw it, I opened Task Manager from Windows, ended "Word" task [basically I manually crashed it]. Then I copied the file name of the of the recovered file Word created, then deleted file. I then renamed my original *.asd file that I couldn't open before and pasted the new file name over it. Then I opened Word, clicked on the "Document 3" recovered file, and in stead of restoring my new file with random text, it restored my *.asd file from earlier that I had lost. So basically, I lied to Microsoft Word...It opened the file it was expecting because of the file name, but the contents were my recovered *.asd file from earlier, Word didn't know the difference. Hope this works for you, if you need help or better explanation let me know.
that was absurd. did not work
OMG thank you so much! I really needed this
YOU SAVE MY LIFEEE TOOOOOO ! TQ FOR RESCUING ME FROM GIVING UP! (rainbowisfallenfromthesky)
