Older document versions disappeared

I've been keeping a diary in numbers of my diet, and yes, I've been saving it after every entry. We had a power outage yesterday, and the document I've been working with seems to have reverted to the version I first loaded a week ago (created in excel).
Is there directory somewhere in this machine where previously saved versions are stored? I tried a search in 'finder', and the original version (on my desktop) didn't even show up.

(1) I don't understand why you ask about a document originated in Excel in a forum dedicated to Pages !
(2) As I don't know what is wrong in your message, I will respond assuming that the original document was matching the forum object.
If you opened the document
wxyz.pages
stored in the folder
the/folder/in/which/I/save/my/documents
Each time you will save it, the new document will replace the original file in the original folder.
If you opened the document
wxyz.doc
stored in the folder
the/folder/in/which/I/save/my/documents
When you tried to save using cmd + S you were urged to define the location where you wanted to save the document in the Pages format.
You may know the answer, we can't guess it.
I don't know the way you used Spotlight to search your file.
If you searched for wxyz.doc, it's logical that you found only the original file.
Try to search for wxyz.pages
You may also look in the Finder's Recent Items menu.
If you have a good memory and remember a sentence embedded in the document, you may use a tool designed to search in the file's contents without a prebuilt index (easyFind is such a tool) you may use it but, this proposal assume that you aren't using the file format introduced by iWork '09.
(4) If you were really asking about a Numbers document (which is perfectly odd in a Pages forum), replace pages by numbers and .doc by .xls in what I wrote above.
And of course, next time take care to what is written on the door before pushing it to enter.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 11 février 2011 15:56:05

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