Excel

[Marc M]

Hi,

Please help if you can,

Do you know how to access and load an autosave file for Excel 2003?
My computer has not crashed but I need to recover how the spreadsheet was
before I made a change. The Undo feature is not helping. The Excel Help
feature only tells me what I already know and not what I want to know.

Also, does anyone know if it is possible to just simply email Microsoft
instead of spending this much time on a simple query!?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Hi,

Please help if you can,

Do you know how to access and load an autosave file for Excel 2003?
My computer has not crashed but I need to recover how the spreadsheet was
before I made a change. The Undo feature is not helping. The Excel Help
feature only tells me what I already know and not what I want to know.

You've posted on a XL for Macintosh newsgroup (hence the '.mac.' in the
newsgroup name), but the answer should be largely the same.

Unless you had something like Jan Karel Pieterse's AutoSafe add-in
creating the 'autosave' file, you're probably out of luck.

XL 2003 doesn't even *have* autosave.

It has AutoRecover, which saves changes as you work, but deletes the
file once you close XL. Of course, if you haven't closed XL, the file
will still be on your hard drive, but it will have updated at the
frequency you set.

You may be able to use a disk recovery utility (Google for it - I'm no
longer familiar with what's available), since when XL saves, it saves a
new file, then deletes the old, then renames the new to the old file
name. If the file hasn't been overwritten, it *may* still be accessible
to a low-level search (i.e., for some text in the file).

Also, does anyone know if it is possible to just simply email Microsoft
instead of spending this much time on a simple query!?

Certainly they do:

http://support.microsoft.com/

IIRC, it's about $50.00 per request.

 

[Marc M]

Hi JE,

Thank you very much for your help. You're very kind.

With regards,
Marc