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 ...

How To Recover An Unsaved Excel File By Brad Coleta April 19, 2019 August 27, 2023 If you work a lot in Excel, you’ve no doubt experienced losing a file due to forgetting to save it.

Sometimes you can accidentally save the wrong version of an Excel document and want to recover the previous version of the file. Don't worry, it's feasible and will take only 5 minutes of your time.

See the screenshot below for the Excel Options window. AutoRecover is separate from AutoSave, which is available only when a file is saved to OneDrive or SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and you have a ...

AutoSave. The AutoSave tool saves new files that have been created but never saved (e.g., you close the file without saving or the power goes out). To access AutoSaved files, select File, Recent, ...

Auto Recover saves unsaved Excel files when the system shuts down. If Excel Excel Auto Recover is not working, take these steps to fix the issue.

How to Recover a Microsoft Excel File That Is Not in a Recognizable Format. If Microsoft Excel fails to recognize a file in the XLSX or XLS format, the data contained in the file could be corrupted.