Excel Help

[TerriP]

Does anyone know, once you've hit "Save", is there any way to "undo" in Excel or retrieve the former document? I meant to hit "save as" and hit "save"...thus deleting a large section of a document.

 

[Frantasmic]

Is the portion you deleted perhaps saved in your clipboard?


Open up Excel and select the whole worksheet in a new document and select Paste. Perhaps your data is on the clipboard.

the only other possibility that I know right now, and time is of the essence, would be to go to your TMP folder and see if a large file is there about the same time you remember deleting/changing the data. Perhaps you got an auto TMP save.

change the tmp file to an .xls extension and check.

 

[salmoneous]

You can't use the "undo" key to undo the save. However, you may be able to use undo to get back what you deleted. Good luck.

 

[Hercules10]

If you're on a PC at home that's not networked then I'd say your hosed. If however you're on a networked PC and you saved it to a network drive then contact your IS and ask them to load yesterday's file. You'll lose whatever work you did today, but it'll be back.

Good Luck

 

[TerriP]

Thank you all for your help. I am on a network computer at my office, but the call I put in to tech support at 7:55 this morning still hasn't been returned, so I just re-typed it myself. So much for "support", huh?