If you haven't already switched off your machine, DON'T.
First thing, if you have excel open: 1. Check to see if any columns or rows are missing (like row number 2, or column J-L, or whatever) - you may have accidentally hidden them. 2. If the whole sheet is gone, that might be hidden.
If you DON'T have excel open: 1. Check in the directory where you are saving your document, and look for any files with similar but not exact names, eg *.tmp files - these can also be hidden, so if you don't see anything like this, right click on the folder and, in properties, mark that you want to see all files. 2. Copy this directory as is, and put the copy somewhere else. 3. If you didn't delete the file, open excel and do all the stuff in the "First thing, if you have excel open" section.
If there is any chance that the file has been deleted: 1. Check the recycling bin first. 2. If the file definately was deleted, and isn't in the recycling bin, you may still be able to get it back, but it's a lot more work - the key thing here is to use your computer, ESPECIALLY the drive the file was on, as little as possible. If the file is on the same drive as your operating system, it will be even more difficult to recover, but not necessarily impossible.
Let me know if you need recovery software, I might be able to help.
Thank you for all the suggestions, hon! I had turned my laptop off, though.
The file itself is there, and there are no lines hidden or anything - it's like it's jumped back in time. It looks like it did two weeks ago. Never had anything like this happen.
You might try - for the future, a program called file hamster - it squirrels away copies of everything, so if something like this happens, you should still have, in the file hamster files, still-safe copies.
BUT, there's a chance it's not completely gone.
If you haven't already switched off your machine, DON'T.
First thing, if you have excel open:
1. Check to see if any columns or rows are missing (like row number 2, or column J-L, or whatever) - you may have accidentally hidden them.
2. If the whole sheet is gone, that might be hidden.
If you DON'T have excel open:
1. Check in the directory where you are saving your document, and look for any files with similar but not exact names, eg *.tmp files - these can also be hidden, so if you don't see anything like this, right click on the folder and, in properties, mark that you want to see all files.
2. Copy this directory as is, and put the copy somewhere else.
3. If you didn't delete the file, open excel and do all the stuff in the "First thing, if you have excel open" section.
If there is any chance that the file has been deleted:
1. Check the recycling bin first.
2. If the file definately was deleted, and isn't in the recycling bin, you may still be able to get it back, but it's a lot more work - the key thing here is to use your computer, ESPECIALLY the drive the file was on, as little as possible. If the file is on the same drive as your operating system, it will be even more difficult to recover, but not necessarily impossible.
Let me know if you need recovery software, I might be able to help.
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The file itself is there, and there are no lines hidden or anything - it's like it's jumped back in time. It looks like it did two weeks ago. Never had anything like this happen.
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