NOTE: If you cannot find your files by the above process, you can also try searching the unsaved word documents with file format (.asd) Using Search to Recover Unsaved Word Document. Save the recovered file without any further delay. The files should contain your last made changes.Please note that the Unsaved word documents are in (.asd) format as shown below. Under the opened folder browse for your Unsaved word document.Click on Open and Recover Unsaved Documents as explained in the screenshot below.This new feature has saved a lot of efforts and there is no need to worry to save your word document everytime. 11 How to Troubleshoot damaged document in MS Word.9 Recover a Word Document in Mac (Apple).5 Use Word to automatically find the AutoRecover files.2 Using Search to Recover Unsaved Word Document.1 Inbuilt – Recover unsaved word document.