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, ...

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 ...

Sometimes you can accidentally save the wrong version of an Excel document and want to recover the previous version of the file. Don't worry, it's feasible and will take only 5 minutes of your time.

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If Microsoft Excel fails to recognize a file in the XLSX or XLS format, the data contained in the file could be corrupted. When you open a corrupted workbook in Excel, the program should automatically ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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