I think that this is one of those things you have no control over.

If excel/windows crashed, then the next time you start up excel, it's smart
enough to notice that something bad happened and shows you those options.

But if nothing bad happened when you closed excel, those recovery files are
deleted.



AndyG wrote:

The Document Recovery task pane (where previous versions of files that have
been saved using the auto recovery feature are stored) does not seem to
appear each time I go into Excel. How do I force this task pane to appear on
the screen.

On one occasion, I went to the length of re-installing Office and it
appeared again when I first entered Excel. This time I did the same and even
that didn,t work ?

I am using Office 2003 Professional

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Dave Peterson