As per Harlan and Gord's notes, this is NOT something you can recover from
yourself - Call IT and do it now. Do NOT open any other files on this
machine, and make that call.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"MDJ" wrote in message
...
During the saving process I replaced a very important spreadsheet file
with
another one. Now I can't access the original spreadsheet. I am really in
a
panick! I have excel 2003 and I would like to know how I can recover my
file. HELP!

Thanks,
Margaret