Restoring lost input data (word doc)

[BecksB]

My boss has been working on a Microsoft Word document for the past 5 days. She saved the document regularly. She opened the document today, worked for about 3 hours, saved it and when she re-opened the document it was empty.. Completely blank!! I have looked in the recent folder/my documents/searched for any other saved copies but they all come back blank. Is there anyway I can retrieve the work she has done, or restore the document back to this morning because it was fine then. I’m really at a loss to how to retrieve the information she’s typed up.
I would appreciate any help or advice and thank you for your time reading this. BTW, my appraisal is on 20th March 

[-modest-]

did you try the recycle bin?

[BecksB]

Yeap.. looked in there.. it's not the file that's lost.. it's the input date she's been typing out for days. The file name is saved but when opened it only shows 1 page of 1, which is blank.. I haven't got a clue why it's all gone 

[-modest-]

do u have administrative privilages to us a recovery third pary recovery software?
such as pandora?
if you dont...

i have nothing for you...
the link is hither....

http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10694796.html

if u cant use it i hope someone else can help you.

cuz ive never delt with a word docs programming problems b4.