how do I bring up the document recovery pane up manually

hi

I was working on a powerpoint file and did not save the changes, system
crashed and when I reopened powerpoint, it showed me the files I was working
on. Unfortunately I clicked cancel. (as file showed when it was last saved
and since in my documents I had the version as of the time I saved it,
without changes, I stupidly clicked cancel)

So I only have the old version of the file.

How do I display the pane that shows me the files, or somehow find other
versions of the file that microsoft has saved.

Thanks

Shriram

Would help if you said what version of Powerpoint. As a guess, see
Method 4 in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826810 "How to
troubleshoot damaged presentations in PowerPoint 2003 and in PowerPoint
2002".

Shriram wrote:

> hi
>
> I was working on a powerpoint file and did not save the changes, system
> crashed and when I reopened powerpoint, it showed me the files I was working
> on. Unfortunately I clicked cancel. (as file showed when it was last saved
> and since in my documents I had the version as of the time I saved it,
> without changes, I stupidly clicked cancel)
>
> So I only have the old version of the file.
>
> How do I display the pane that shows me the files, or somehow find other
> versions of the file that microsoft has saved.
>
> Thanks
>
> Shriram