Q. I have lost some or all of my work a few times in Excel. I can recover most of it because of AutoRecover, but quite a bit of it is sometimes missing. Is there a way to AutoRecover closer to real ...

Need to recover an “unsaved” Excel file from your hard drive? Hoping it was saved by your “Autosave” feature? If you haven’t done anything else to the file yet, it should still be there waiting for ...

Digital disaster can strike in an instant when a program that contains important information closes unexpectedly. Microsoft designed Excel to address this problem through an AutoRecover feature that ...

Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

If you work a lot in Excel, you’ve no doubt experienced losing a file due to forgetting to save it. If you’ve done a lot of work in Excel on a single project, only to have closed the file without ...

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Excel files can be complicated worksheets with pages of data, calculations and cross-referenced information. With all that information, it's no wonder you might feel panicked when one of your ...