A FB friend wrote this and we are trying to help her. Any ideas?
anybody know how i would recover an excel s/s i have been working on for 4 days, i saved as i went along and now i can't find it? things i have done already: *tried to find temp files, although it appears i do not have them on this new work laptop, *search the usual folders that it is kept in, *looked in the recycle bin, *looked in the most recent doc, *looked in the most recent files on excel.
Did you search all files and folders for *.xls files? That should find all your excel spreadsheets, I think! She did that.
Create a new worksheet, save it as 'findloc' or something similar. Search all files and folders for 'findloc'.* - this should show where Excel is saving files. Go to that location and look at all the files there. If Excel was for some reason unable to save the file you want, it should be in that location with an 8 character file name and no extension. You should be able to open that file name with Excel and save it as what you want it to be.
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