How to Recover an ASD File. A file with the file extension of ".ASD" is an automatically-saved backup file for a Microsoft Word 2002 or 2003 document.

AutoRecover is a Word feature that automatically saves temporary backups. It can help recover unsaved Word document on Windows 10/11, but only if it was turned on before the file was lost.

Weblog Hack College lists 10 ways you may be able to recover an accidentally deleted Word document, including searching your hard drive for Word's AutoRecover backup file: ...

If you're writing a document in Microsoft Word and the worst happens, you may not have lost all of your work. Here are some steps to try and recover.