How to recover unsaved Microsoft Office file (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

If Word has unexpectedly shutdown without you being able to save your work, follow the steps below to attempt a recovery:

1. First, open the program you were using (Word, Excel, etc.) and navigate to "Info" following the navigation path below:

File>Info>Manage Document> Recover Unsaved Document

2. If the documents were not found using the method above, try navigating to the file path directly by pasting the blow links in Windows Explorer:

a.) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles

b.) %APPDATA%\Roaming\Microsoft