How can I change an excel document

[Sara]

How can I change an excel document back a regular folder?
I opened a folder with excel by mistake, it had several
emails in it. Now I can't read it.
what do I do to be able to change back to a folder so I
can open it?

Thank you.

Sara

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[Dave Peterson]

It sounds like you opened a file and actually saved it in excel (or let autosave
save it).

It that's what happened, do you have a backup of your original file?

I don't think there's a way to go back.

Depending on what that file was (plain text???), you may be able to reopen it in
excel and extract some info--but I would guess that a lot would be lost.

If you try this, copy that file to a new name and experiment on that (no sense
making the matters worse).

 

[Gord Dibben]

Sara

I assume you mean you opened a "file" with Excel since "folders" cannot be
opened by Excel or any other application.

A Folder contains one or more files.

Whatever you opened, if you saved it in Excel it is in Excel format. If you
did not save it, no change would have been made to the original.

You should have gotten a warning that the file was Excel compatible and
stopped there.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP