Here's how to restore earlier document versions from some of the top apps and services. We also explain how to recover files from backups on different operating systems.

If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to ...

Tips If Microsoft Word displays a message warning "There Are No Previous Versions of This File," it means no previous versions of the document were auto-saved.