Restoring files from flash drive to Excel

D

DL

If you mean excel data, drag & drop in exporer to whatever location you
usually store data
 
J

Joseph Meehan

allb77 said:
Just how exactly can I do this? Thanks.
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Excel, Word, etc do not store files. They do keep a list of the last
few files you have used and the last location they saw them. There usually
is a default location, but you can change that to whatever you want. I have
mine set up for C:/Joe/Documents/Excel and C:/Joe/Documents/MSWORD. Oh and
all the good stuff is stored on a portable drive and not attached the
computer very often. :)

Remember, the list you see in Excel is not the real files, it is only an
address book of recently used files.
 
M

Meebers

Have you opened excel, selected open file and point to your flash drive?
or....select restore and point towards your flash drive?
 
A

allb77

I have copied all my Excel data files to a flash drive. My computer hard
drive crashed, therefore, I lost all on hard drive. I installed new hard
drive. Now I'm
trying to figure out the best and easiest way to copy these files from my
flash drive to Excel - to be as they were before. Has anyone done this
before????? I can't
believe how difficult of a task this has become....and I don't consider
myself a
computer "dummy"...but this just isn't working.

Thanks..
 
G

Gordon

allb77 said:
I have copied all my Excel data files to a flash drive. My computer hard
drive crashed, therefore, I lost all on hard drive. I installed new hard
drive. Now I'm
trying to figure out the best and easiest way to copy these files from my
flash drive to Excel - to be as they were before. Has anyone done this
before????? I can't
believe how difficult of a task this has become....and I don't consider
myself a
computer "dummy"...but this just isn't working.
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<sigh> open Windows Explorer, navigate to the flash drive (assuming you have
plugged it in), select all the files, right-click-copy. go to your Documents
folder, right-click paste.

Do you REALLY not know how to do this?
 
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