Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

You’ve spent hours working on an Excel workbook on a MacBook, but now it’s gone. Or, when you exit an Excel file, you unintentionally select “Don’t Save”. Is this to say that your entire effort has ...

If you work a lot in Excel, you’ve no doubt experienced losing a file due to forgetting to save it. If you’ve done a lot of work in Excel on a single project, only to have closed the file without ...

Microsoft Excel has several features designed to help you recover unsaved versions of spreadsheets and prevent data loss. If Excel closes before you save a file, you should see a Document Recovery tab ...

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Q. Help! I have been working on a very important Excel file for a client, and suddenly my computer locked up and says, “Excel is not responding.” Is there anything I can do so that I don’t lose all of ...

If the Auto Recover feature is not working, there is a chance that it is not enabled. Follow the steps below to enable Auto Recover in Excel. Open the Excel application. On the backstage view, click ...

Digital disaster can strike in an instant when a program that contains important information closes unexpectedly. Microsoft designed Excel to address this problem through an AutoRecover feature that ...

Just because you delete a file on your computer doesn’t mean it’s gone, and that’s true for both older mechanical hard drives as well as solid-state drives and flash drives. Yet on the flip side, just ...

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Need to track down and recover a file that was previously deleted? Whether you use Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, iDrive, or Microsoft OneDrive, there are ways to get your files back. Here's how.