Can't find document

Depending on the version of Word for Mac, methods & features vary.

• Recovering Unsaved Word Documents OS X - MacTip:

https://www.mactip.net/recovering-unsaved-word-documents-osx/

• How to recover a lost Word document - Office | Microsoft Docs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/recover-lost-document

• How To Recover Unsaved Or Lost Word Documents On Mac - macworld

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/recover-word-documents-3655085/

There are other details and these too vary, depending on how far

you need to go in order to find evidence of those lost documents.

In a search even 'sequence of words' used can cause variable results.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=find+lost+word+documents+in+macos&t=ffab&ia=web

Some MS Word answers are based on Windows-only version.

Assuming you did save the file, look under the Go menu of Finder. Select the option Recents. This will open a window showing you files that were recently saved/created from newest to oldest. The nice thing about the Recents view is that it looks at all the folders in your personal directory so you don't have to.