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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Need to recover an “unsaved” Excel file from your hard drive? Hoping it was saved by your “Autosave” feature? If you haven’t done ...

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 ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

A missing Excel file isn’t always the disaster it feels like.

The sanity-saving Manage Presentation capability is available on all of the current Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I wrote about this a couple of years ago (see “How ...

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 ...