How to recover unsaved Microsoft Office documents?

If you forgot to save any of your recent Microsoft Office documents, you can recover it manually by going to the Manage Document option in the File menu.

Microsoft Word:

If you want to recover an unsaved Word document, go to the File menu in MS word as follows.
File > Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents

Once you select “recover unsaved documents”, it will show a list of recent documents that were not saved.

You can do the same for Excel and PowerPoint by going to their respective File menus.

Microsoft Excel:

File > Info > Manage Workbook > Recover Unsaved Workbooks

Microsoft PowerPoint:

File > Info > Manage Presentation > Recover Unsaved Presentations