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.

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.

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.

1] Microsoft Excel’s Native Repairing Feature When you are trying to open a corrupted Excel file, Microsoft Excel automatically starts file recovery mode and tries to repair the Excel file.

If any documents were saved under AutoRecover, you will see a "Recover Unsaved" file. Open this to restore the Excel file; name and save it in your desired location.

The undo button will only get you so far—sometimes you just need to go back in time. It's called file versioning and here's how to use it.