You might have success with a program to recover deleted files
Disk Utilities - backup, recovery, status (#refUtil)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm#refUtil

The second worst thing that could happen is that it works and you still
don't create backups for the next time it happens. Because your chances
are not all that good.

You should start taking backups and that's what the page is really about:
Backup your files, always take backups
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm
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David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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"Julie" wrote in message ...
thank you for the bad news. :o)

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

Unfortunately, if you don't have a backup, or a disk utility that can
recover deleted files, you don't.