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. The Microsoft Office Word application ...

If you see The Document Recovery task pane contains some recovered files that have not been opened, every time you launch Word, PowerPoint or Excel, see this post.

Once you find any Word file with the .asd extension, head back to Microsoft Word and click on the File option at the top and select the Open and Browse tabs.

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.

In Word, go to Tools, then Options. Under the File Locations tab, double-click AutoRecover files and make a note of that path location. Click Cancel and Close.