pls help!!

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Guest

i was working in excel on a document which was previously
saved. i added to it and before i could save it kicked me
out and took my work with it. is there any way to recover
files on this? please help me!!
 
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David McRitchie

You might try looking for a file with funny names without any file
extension in the same directory that have hexadecimal digits for
a filename i.e. 04C0A100 You could sort on file type it
will show as "File" instead of "Microsoft Excel Workbook"

If you find one, open it in excel and use Save As
i.e. Junk_04C0A100.xls

Be sure to look at the dates in fact if might be helpful to save
the file with the date as part of it's name
i.e. Junk_20040629_04C0A100.xls

The if you did find something you could compare the two
workbooks.

In the unlikely event that this actually works for you, please
provide feedback. (I know you'll say something if it doesn't help).

The above is not in my backup.htm webpage.
 
G

Guest

THANKS FOR TRYING TO HELP DAVID BUT UNFORTUNATLY IT DIDN'T
WORK U WOULD THINK EXCEL WOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF DOCUMENT
RECOVERY WITH HOW COMPUTERS ARE THESE DAYS...SOMEONE WOULD
BE QUITE RICH IF THEY CREATED A PROGRAM THAT DID THAT!!
WELL THANKS ALOT ANYWAYS. =)
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You might try looking for a file with funny names without any file
extension in the same directory that have hexadecimal digits for
a filename i.e. 04C0A100 You could sort on file type it
will show as "File" instead of "Microsoft Excel Workbook"

If you find one, open it in excel and use Save As
i.e. Junk_04C0A100.xls

Be sure to look at the dates in fact if might be helpful to save
the file with the date as part of it's name
i.e. Junk_20040629_04C0A100.xls

The if you did find something you could compare the two
workbooks.

In the unlikely event that this actually works for you, please
provide feedback. (I know you'll say something if it doesn't help).

The above is not in my backup.htm webpage.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

No way, sorry
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Harlan Grove

THANKS FOR TRYING TO HELP DAVID BUT UNFORTUNATLY IT DIDN'T
WORK U WOULD THINK EXCEL WOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF DOCUMENT
RECOVERY WITH HOW COMPUTERS ARE THESE DAYS...SOMEONE WOULD
BE QUITE RICH IF THEY CREATED A PROGRAM THAT DID THAT!!
WELL THANKS ALOT ANYWAYS. =)
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Dunno. Microsoft is ridiculously rich, and they haven't added this feature.

Actually, some versions do have features called AutoRecover and AutoSave.
 
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