How do you recover a word document on macbook pro?

Word as in Windows ?

http://www.ehow.com/how_6608271_recover-unsaved-word-document-mac.html#page=0

or Recovering documents on mac

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2419343?start=0&tstart=0

How do you recover a word document on a macbook pro?

What do you mean by "recover?" Did you delete a file and now you want it back? If so, restore it from your backups. If you don't have backups, see Recovering deleted files. (And start making backups!) If that's not it, you'll need to be more specific.

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gwils wrote:

How do you recover a word document on a macbook pro?

Just as you do it on a Mac Pro or a Mac Mini.

What version of Mac OS X? What version of MS Word?

If you're thinking of the AutoRecover feature, you have to enable it first. If it was enabled, this

<http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahnd.html#FindingfilesMac>

will tell you what to do.

I clicked don't save in error

If you've already examined the autorecovery files in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 AutoRecovery and there's nothing, you're out of luck.

"Time machine" is a built-in backup tool that works with your Mac and an external drive, As the problem you described, I read it. The files deleted in Trash bin could be a different problem which Time machine can't solve. you can readthis articleand learn more. I hope it will help.