Before proceeding, first, update Microsoft Office or Word. Also, clear the temporary files to remove leftovers created using Word, and then open your Word document.

Option 4: Recover from Temporary Files While you work, Word creates “.tmp” (temporary) files that you can manually search to find a copy of your unsaved document.

Run Word in safe mode. Remove the default template file. Turn off hardware graphics acceleration in Word. Clean up temporary files from your computer. Optimize your documents. Update Microsoft Word.