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Open the file you were working in, select the File menu and click on Info from the left-hand menu.

If you’re updating an existing file and forget to save changes, you can recover the changes you made by completing the following: Click on Save As in the status bar at the top of the screen and save the document to a location of your choice for future access.

The file will then open in the program you are using and immediately prompt you to save the document.

In the dialog box that appears, click on the file you need to recover to highlight it and then click on Open.

NOTE: You can also select File - Recent and then click on Recover Unsaved Documents at the bottom right corner of the screen. (In Excel, this is called Recover Unsaved Workbooks and in PowerPoint it’s called Recover Unsaved Presentations).

In the program you’re working in, select the File menu and click on Info from the left-hand menu.

New files you’ve developed that haven’t yet been saved can be recovered by completing the following steps:

Ensure that both Save AutoRecover information every XX minutes and Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving are checked.In each program, select the File menu and click on Options from the left hand menu.In order to do this, however, you need to make sure Office is configured to auto recover and auto save your documents. When creating documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Office can automatically save documents in a temporary location so you can retrieve the file in the event it is prematurely closed. Luckily, several programs in Microsoft Office 2010 provide us with a safety net for those occasions when we lose what we’ve created. Regardless, it is a disheartening feeling to think that all that hard work was just flushed down the drain in an instant. Perhaps you deliberately closed the program, but accidentally hit Don’t Save instead of the Save button (I know I’ve done that before). Once everything is back up and running, panic sets in as you realize you didn’t save your work. Very odd (and annoying !!!).It’s a sad and frustrating occurrence that happens to the best of us…you’re working hard to wrap up a document due by the end of the day when your computer crashes, the lights go out, or the program you’re working in just locks up unexpectedly. When I save a word file with a filename longer than 21 characters, there's no issue at all. When I change it back to 21 characters or less, the file opens again.ģ) The issue only seems to be occuring with Excel files.

I can rename it in my finder to something of more than 21 characters, but then the Excel file doesn't open. When moving that file to a folder higher up the hierarchy, I can save it with that exact same name.Ī few additional findings (assuming folder X and all its subfolders return issues):ġ) If in folder X I could not save the file, and instead I save it in another folder (say folder Y), the file does not open after I copy paste it into the location where I originally intended the file to be in (folder X)Ģ) I noticed that, in folder X, I'm only able to save a file when the filelenght is equal to or smaller than 21 characters. When I try saving a file in a specific folder, it's not able to save. Since today, I'm getting the exact same issue.