In Excel 2003 (and before) click the File item on the menu and look in the
recent files list; if not there use Open and navigate to the folder and open
it

In Excel 2007 click the Office icon (colourful disk at left of Ribbon) and
so the same

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I created a spreadsheet in excel about 2 weeks ago. I need to get into
this
file to use the spreadsheet I created. But I can't figure out how to open
old files in this version of excel. HELP!