Any experts with the Word program? And, specifically, with Tables?

[Baitball Blogger]

So, I made a lot of changes to an existing table and lost data. Or, hopefully, the data is hiding.

I added a column to an existing table and began making adjustments to the other columns to provide more space for the information. In the process, I lost information from the old columns. Is there a way to recover the old information? And if not, is there a way to get back to the original table before I made saves as I went along?

the version is Office 2016.

[DBoon]

1. sometime, when you mess with column spacing

the text inside the cells might be out of view - shifted too far to the right or left.

My suggestion is to copy the entire table and paste it into a new document as unformatted text, getting rid of all table organization.

If your info exists, it should show, through it won't be pretty

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I did try to paste it, but it didn't give me the option to do it as unformatted text.

I would have been happy with this solution, if it had worked.

[progree]

6. Try pasting into Notepad ...

that will always be unformatted plain text.

Another thing to look at is doing, with your Word file, File -> Info and looking at the Versions area

There is a Manage Versions button

(speaking of Office 2010)

[LearnedHand]

2. When you added columns

Did Word move your data to the right outside the edit view? Select the whole table and format its width to be 6.5 inches or so, then resize the table accordingly. If this isn't the case, search for a way to restore previous versions.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I think I'm going to have to find a way to restore previous versions.

I did resize to 14 inches because it was in landscape and it still didn't change anything. I even tried smaller print size. Still nothing.

[taxi]

4. Look for the autosave directory location

in the settings.

eta - rather than using the backup and restarting, just pull the data.

[hedda_foil]

7. If there's still time, try narrowing the right/left margins and switching the layout to landscape.

Then you should be able to see the whole file with numbers and columns.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Hi Hedda. I gave up and started looking for an old

Backup. Luckily I hadn’t updated it in six months so I didn’t lose too much info. Thanks and thanks everyone for answering my question