Can't find a pages document despite regular saves while working on it.

Hello. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours continuing work on a pages document I had prepared. I saved the document regularly using both the file>save method and the Command+S method. The file did seem to take an unusual amount of time to save but it did appear to complete the save. I shut down the computer overnight and started it up to do some more work today. To my surprise I can only find the previous version of the file that I saved a on the 18th - not the one I was working on on the 21st. A search of the finder, recycle bin and anywhere else I can think of has come up with nothing. It seems nothing at all was saved while I was working on the document. Time Machine wasn't plugged in. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Have you gone to:
+Menu > File > Open Recent…+ ?
You have Time Machine so obviously you have a 2nd drive. It is nowhere on that?
It is also possible that you accidently saved it into your System files which Spotlight does not search.
Did you Save As… to another format perhaps?
Download [EasyFind|http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076/easyfind] (free) and install it. It will search all your drives as long as they are attached, so make sure you have inserted all external drives, USB flash drives etc and anywhere else you may have dropped your file.
You do need to be more conscious of what you are doing when you save and where you save to.
If you are new to Macs or computing I suggest you do Apple's introductory videos:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
and
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
Peter

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