Lost all my work in Excel 2007

[Guest]

I was working on a spreadsheet in Excel 2k7 and closed it and it asked me do
I want to save changes and I clicked YES and then I opened it again and all
information that I just entered is gone. Where can I go to recover the lost
file?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe you saved it to a different location than you thought.

I'd use windows start|search to look for that new file (maybe by name or by date
or by size or ....)

 

[Jon Peltier]

Or see if the file is listed among the most recently used files.

- Jon

 

[Dave Peterson]

Just to add to Jon's advice...

Open excel and use File|Open.

Depending on the version of excel you're using and a setting that you're using,
you may see the name of that last file you worked on (at the bottom of that
dropdown).

If no files are listed there, you can use this in xl2003 and below:
Tools|Options|General Tab|recently used file list.
Turn it on and use the largest number possible (9).

If that doesn't help, maybe
windows start button|documents
and see if it's listed there.

If you find it in either list, open it and do File|SaveAs and save it to your
favorite folder.