Windows 7: Word closes when i want to save document!!! Lost all my work!!!! HELP

Hi there this is really urgent i typed for 5hours and when I wanted to save my word closes and now lost all my work i have typed normally there would show a window of my last working files that it can bring some of it back before the 10minutes but cant find that window that pop's up anymore. Please where can I find this window I really need this task need to print it at 7. 30

Well, if autosave was on, try going here to look for any autosave files:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\

Of check your word settings for save and check where your current auto save flder is set too...

Thx mate did look there nothing there, had to do it all over again minus 20 marks....

Core7, I realise that it won't help now, but the following information might help in future, should it happen again:
For Office 2007 or 2003
My Office program did not open a recovered file - Word - Office.com

For Office 2010
My Office program did not open a recovered file - Word - Office.com

And a word to the wise for the future: SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN! I save every few minutes. I've lost important documents and I never want that to happen to me again.

Besides making sure auto-save is on.. I also always create my documents in the file system before editing. I.e. right click folder and select "New Word Document". That creates and actual file to start editing from right from the start... And then paranoidingly I hit the save icon after each chunk of work I do, or every little stretch break I make...

In fact when it's something REALLY important like a multi-day/week/month project like a novel, I make a new copy of the file every morning before opening it to edit it for the day.

EXCELLENT suggestions! Rep + to you!

I agree!