I was typing in Microsoft Works Word Processing and I lost power to the computer, thereby losing most of my work. I believe I have found the autosave .tmp file and have made a copy of it on my desktop for easy reference. If I am correct in thinking that this is the lost .wps document autosave how doI comvert the file into the proper format to read it as a .wps file? Otherwise how can I recover the missing file if that is not the proper one? Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi and welcome to PCHF

Try right-clicking on the file and selecting "Open with.." then Notepad (make sure you uncheck the box "Always open with..."). It may be easier than getting Works to attempt to re-compile it all.

How does it look in Notepad? Can you find your work?

If you still cant fimd the file, or the one you mentioned isnt the same try this: http://www.pchelpforum.com/utilities...-recovery.html

Unfortunately I have tried openning it as many different document types. I have also tried to rename a copied version of the file but that failed as well, not that I had much hope in that working. How would I set about recompiling the document for Works 7.0?