Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX

This definitely helped me, but the Text Edit only provided me with 1/4 of my paper and the rest was symbols and text that made the file look like hieroglyphics. Is there a way I can change that?

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I tried and the word documnet turned out blank

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Thanks! You helped me recover a document I spent 6 hours on ... had saved ... but seemed permanently lost!

Hi i tried all the above and found the temp folder but when i open the temp file in textedit it comes up with either nothing or gibberish. please help i need to recover my assignment!!

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.