Okay, I know I'm an idiot. That goes without saying, so there's no need to repeat it. I was working in a final project/grad school document for hours yesterday with a horrid headache, and I didn't even think about saving as I was going. So it's still called "Document 1." Late last night all of a sudden the cursor started circling, the screen changed color slightly, and at the top it now says "not responding." I looked up how to do document recovery, but this laptop (which was a gift) is a new, cheap Dell running Windows 8, and I installed Microsoft Home and Student Office 2007, so the directions for document recovery all ask me to press or click on things that don't exist. For example, it says to click start, point to programs, etc, but there is no start button where you can then go to programs. I don't want to close the document for fear that I will lose everything, although it is set to autosave every 10 minutes. I have no idea what to do now- I ran the diagnostics for word, which came up with a ton of different conflicting results. If anyone has advice I'd be really grateful!
Thanks.
