HELP! Word Autorecovery problems

[bookwormoakes]

I had written several pages in a word document without saving. In
total, I was working on that document for about an hour (my
Autorecover was set to save every 10 minutes). I had saved it once,
when I was about a paragraph in.

I decided to exit the document and finish it later. I went 'Word' then
'Quit Word.' My brain wasn't working properly because, when I was
asked "Do you want to save?" I hit the 'Don't Save' button.

Now I can't find an Autorecover file for this document. I've heard
Autorecover is only for when there's a power outage, not when the user
purposefully doesn't save the document.

All I've got is the original document from the first time I saved
(with only a paragraph of my work). I'm really close to freaking out
and I'm praying there is some way my document can be recovered. I'm
afraid Mac does not account for the user's stupidity so I might be out
of luck.

I really appreciate any help you can give me!