I work in a corporate environment with XP as the OS running Excel 2003.

A couple of days ago our system administrator needed to check something on
my computer, and forced my laptop to shut down by holding down the power
button... Not exactly my choice, but that was what she did.

I had been working on the same Excel workbook all day and lost data.

Our system administrator said that Excel would automatically recover the
files that she had forced to close, but when I restarted I never got the
AutoRecover pan, and even worse, I never recovered the data I lost...

I would hate for this to happen again, and so I am wondering how to prevent
it from happening again. AutoRecover is checked under Tools Options Save,
and yet I did not get the expected AutoRecover Pan.

My question is what went wrong here? Is there any connection to Excel only
running SP1, version 11.6355.6260 and Windows XP only running SP 1?

I know that it is like finding a needle in a hay stack, but any advice/hint
is appreciated.

Thanks a lot!