HELP Word crashed with the spinning wheel, i need the Doc , HELP!!!!!

My wife was working on a word document and i got the spinning wheel when she tried to do a spell check. I can't quit word as my wife need the document for her college course and she didn't save it, before she did tyhe spell check. Would it had been stored as a temp file that i can recover in some form. Word is still open ad i will keep the mac power up, until i find and answer or my wife through my mac through the window.Please Please Help as my wife is frantic.!!!!!

Get thee to the Microsoft Word for Mac forum found here <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word>. You'll find several experts there who may be able to assist you. Also have a look at this resource put together by some of those experts <http://word.mvps.org/mac/>.
Word for Mac is a Microsoft product, not an Apple product. You'll find more answers there than you will find here in a forum dedicated to Mac and Windows compatibility. Be sure to search the forum first. You may find that someone else has asked a similar question and that it has already been answered. You'll hopefully get your answer faster this way.
Good luck! bill
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