Due to some reasons (like wrong deletion, virus attraction, or others), the word 2011 document on Mac may get lost. Please look at the following example.

 

Problem: I have been working on a word 2011 document (named “chapter 1-working-20150826”) for several days. And I made significant progress in these days. However, when I try to open it by choosing “Open Recent” in the file menu, I get this message: “can’t find the file”. I have searched in “Spotlight”, looked in the “Trash Bin”, restarted, and looked in auto recovery but can’t find it. It is true that I have Time Machine but my last back up was the day before I made the changes. I just can’t believe my Word document is missing now. Who can tell me how to restore a word 2011 document on Mac? Is there anyone coming to my rescue?

 

When encountered with the problem, what can you do to recover Mac data? Don’t fret. You have chance to recover it since the missing Word documents may be still lying on Mac (to avoid that deleted data gets overwritten, please stop using Mac computer as quickly as possible).

 

Use Third Party Software to Restore Word 2011 Document on Mac

 

Here, resorting to third party Mac data recovery software can be good. And MiniTool Mac Data Recovery may be powerful enough to accomplish the task. Please download and install the software into the computer, and then open it.

 

Step1. Choose one of the four modes to recover data on Mac. And selecting “Damaged Partition Recovery” module is recommended here.
Note: to restore files on HFS+ partition, please select this module. And “Undelete Recovery” is recommended to retrieve deleted data on FAT partition.
Step2. Choose a partition where data loss happens and then click on “Full Scan” to scan lost data.
Step3. Check the desired files and click on “Save” button to keep them into a safe place. Please don’t choose the path where data loss happens to save the documents.
Note: When scanning out too much data, people can use “Filter” to find out specified ones.

 

Finally, restoring a word 2011 document has been successfully done in MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. You can have a try!