I worked on a spreadsheet for several hours and finally completed it. I had
four or five other spreadsheets open that I was cutting and pasting formulas
from. I decided to close the others before I did a final review of my new
spreadsheet.

In closing the others, I hit close for a couple and then accidentally hit
exit instead of close. Not thinking, when the box asking if I wanted to save
changes came up I checked NO, because I did not want to save changes to the
one sheet that was open in front of me.

By going to exit, Excel closed completely. I tried to reopen my document,
which was saved by name, but all I got was a blank spreadsheet. Is there
anyway to get most or all of the lost spreadsheet back?

If you never saved at all before closing with no changes, there is nothing to be
done.

Start over.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:05:00 -0700, Troubled Texan <Troubled
wrote:

I worked on a spreadsheet for several hours and finally completed it. I had
four or five other spreadsheets open that I was cutting and pasting formulas
from. I decided to close the others before I did a final review of my new
spreadsheet.

In closing the others, I hit close for a couple and then accidentally hit
exit instead of close. Not thinking, when the box asking if I wanted to save
changes came up I checked NO, because I did not want to save changes to the
one sheet that was open in front of me.

By going to exit, Excel closed completely. I tried to reopen my document,
which was saved by name, but all I got was a blank spreadsheet. Is there
anyway to get most or all of the lost spreadsheet back?