I used an Excel file yesterday, closed it, no problems. It's a file
that I use everyday; In fact, it's got its own shortcut on my
desktop.

I boot up this morning and the file is missing! Excel says it can't
find it...it's been renamed, deleted, or stolen by homeland
security!!!

I've searched in its home folder, the recycle bin, on my entire
computer, and also searched for anything that was close to the
original name.

NADA!!!!

I do have an old copy, but would prefer not to re-create some of the
data.

Any suggestions?

thnx

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