Word decided to randomly shut down to update, so guess who lost an hour-plus of work...

There doesn't seem to be any way to recover it.

oh nooooo

Looking up solutions just gets me either convoluted instructions that seem impossible to follow and apparently have a low chance of success anyway, or "that's what you get for not wasting time doing constant manual saves."

Oh no

better idea: programs actually having a proper and functioning autosave/recover thing