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Yesterday I wrote a new excel document, then accidentally closed without
saving. However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. The recycle bin does not contain the document. Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! |
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But if you didn't do a File | Save As then it would have had the
default name of Book1.xls - perhaps you can search for this, or better still Book*.xls, Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 8, 7:13*pm, MRJ wrote: Yesterday I wrote a new excel document, then accidentally closed without saving. *However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. * The recycle bin does not contain the document. *Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! |
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Which version of Excel are you using that you think has autosave? Don't
confuse that with autorecovery, which is different. In the Excel help for autorecovery: "Note Do not use AutoRecover as a substitute for regularly saving your work by clicking Save on the Standard toolbar." -- David Biddulph "MRJ" wrote in message ... Yesterday I wrote a new excel document, then accidentally closed without saving. However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. The recycle bin does not contain the document. Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! |
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"Pete_UK" wrote: But if you didn't do a File | Save As then it would have had the default name of Book1.xls - perhaps you can search for this, or better still Book*.xls, Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 8, 7:13 pm, MRJ wrote: Yesterday I wrote a new excel document, then accidentally closed without saving. However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. The recycle bin does not contain the document. Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! Thanks a lot for replying. However, these searches didn't bring up anything. |
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"David Biddulph" wrote: Which version of Excel are you using that you think has autosave? Don't confuse that with autorecovery, which is different. In the Excel help for autorecovery: "Note Do not use AutoRecover as a substitute for regularly saving your work by clicking Save on the Standard toolbar." -- David Biddulph "MRJ" wrote in message ... Yesterday I wrote a new excel document, then accidentally closed without saving. However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. The recycle bin does not contain the document. Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! I thought my computer is set to automatically save documents every 20 minutes. I must have understood. I posted on the Dell forum but have gotten no answers. |
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If you're using Excel 2002 or newer, there is no Autosave as there was in
earlier versions. Autorecovery from ToolsOptionsSave is it. This is not the same as Autosave which made true incremental saves at intervals and alerted you before saving. Autorecovery just saves a temporary file which it deletes if Excel closes normally without incident. BTW.....Dave Peterson reports that he tried an earlier version of Autosave.xla in XL2002 and it seemed to work fine. I have also tried the Autosave.XLA from XL97 on 2002 and 2003 and does the job. To download the 97 version go here..... http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm In addition to the above......Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe which also doen't alert before saving. It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a user selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups (or puts them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the backups from the recycle bin. http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm (look for AutoSafe.zip) Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:13:01 -0700, MRJ wrote: Yesterday I wrote a new excel document, then accidentally closed without saving. However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. The recycle bin does not contain the document. Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! |
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On Apr 9, 2:13*am, MRJ wrote:
Yesterday I wrote a newexceldocument, then accidentally closed without saving. *However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. * The recycle bin does not contain the document. *Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! Hi, You may try Advanced Excel Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ This tool is rather useful in salvaging damaged Excel xls files. Hope this helps. Alan |
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"Alan124" wrote in message
... On Apr 9, 2:13 am, MRJ wrote: Yesterday I wrote a newexceldocument, then accidentally closed without saving. However, enough time elapsed that it should have been auto-saved. The recycle bin does not contain the document. Can I find it anywhere? Thank you for any help! Hi, You may try Advanced Excel Repair at [usual url quoted] This tool is rather useful in salvaging damaged Excel xls files. Hope this helps. Alan Alan, You continually spam this group with mention of your product (and usually do so in a way that tries to sound like a third party recommendation). It is clear in this case, and another case a few minutes from this one where you had also suggested your product, that it wasn't a case of a damaged Excel file, but a file that had been deleted. Are you telling us that your product will recover deleted files? -- David Biddulph |
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