Using windows explorer drill down to the folder that holds The word templates and right click the folder. One of the options is to restore previous versions. If that does'nt work then you need to be strong and go to a backup.

I rely on autotext/building blocks a lot - it's an absolute essential every day. Today I seem to have lost the whole lot of my autotext entries (there were thousands). I went into the folder where the templates are kept and found an old Normal.dotm doc, but its Autotext entries are way out of date. So...

1. Is there any way to get my most recent Autotext/building blocks template back?

2. How did I delete it, or how did it go missing?

3. I generally use a bunch of different Word templates, and need the Autotext entries to work in all of them, which was happening before, but now it won't. Is there any way I can get it to work like that again?

(I'm using Word 2013, Windows 8.)

Any help desperately needed and much appreciated!