Mac Word 2013 - 50 pages disappeared

Hey everyone,

I was just working on a document for school, on Mac Office Word 2013. I made a copy of the original file, because my teacher send an e-mail with wat to study, and it looked so less, so I made a copy of the original file. I began working in the copy, and suddenly, (the document was over 50 pages), there are only 16 pages left. The tab with titles on the left side of my screen was open, en all the titles were still listed there, but when I click on them, nothing happens, like the titles don't exist, but if they don't exist, they shouldn't be listed in the tab on the left. So I panicked for a second, but then I realized that I made a copy, so I opened the original file (which was closed the entire time, I didn't change a damn thing, I didn't came near it AT ALL), and the same thing has happened in the original file: only 15 pages. There's one more page in the original file, that isn't there in the copy. I checked my settings, and autorecovery is checked, and it should save the file every 10 minutes. But when I search for the location where the files for autorecovery are saved, it's empty. This is about word 2013, NOT 2011, and when I search my entire Mac for autorecovery, the only thing I come across is Microsoft office 2011 autorecovery, and nothing about word 2013. Is there ANYONE who can help me? I would be very very very grateful, because this is a document about an exam I'm having next tuesday :(

August 13th, 2015 5:28am

Your description suggests the file you were sent didn't actually contain 50+ pages; rather, someone deleted pages from the original but didn't update the Table of Contents before emailing it.Regardless of what editing you've done, if you re-open the file from the email attachment, anything you were sent will still be there. If you edit an email attachment then close it without using SaveAs to save the file to a new location, all your edits will be lost.
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August 14th, 2015 6:39am

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