Dean,

Auto-recovery is not auto-save. It saves information needed to restore a
corrupted workbook, not a complete copy of your workbook.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email address is on the web site)

"Dean" wrote in message
...
I just accidentally closed out the wrong file of two files without saving
and then, foolishly further, re-opened it in the hopes that I had saved it.
I did not. I assume that any automatic recovery saves I did are lost
forever right?

Thanks!
Dean, the idiot!