How do I recover excel file opened through email and not saved

G

Guest

Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
Really urgent and really important.

Thanks
 
G

Gord Dibben

Can't be that important if you didn't stop occasionally to save a copy.

Your work is gone.

Re-open from the email and start again.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
G

Guest

It was because it was so important that I didn't stop working on it, and
anyway I thought my excel was set up to save every 10 minutes !
 
D

Dave Peterson

If you're lucky, you may find it under your Temporary Internet Files folder
(depending on what you use for your email client).
 
D

Dave Peterson

Excel can keep track of the most recently used files.

If you open excel and click on File, do you see the filename at the bottom of
the dialog?

How about using windows Most recently used list?
Windows Start button|Documents
Is it there?

How about using windows|search for *.xls that were updated in the last day (or
so)?
 
G

Gord Dibben

Liane

Which version of Excel are you using.

There has been no Autosave in Excel since version 2000

Newer versions have only the Autorecovery feature which, if the file is closed
normally as yours was, deletes the temporary Autorecovery file.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 

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