Recovering documents after a system crash

Recovering documents after a system crash

When you open Excel 2007 after a system crash, the Document Recovery task pane shows the available versions of the workbook files that were open at the time of the crash. It identifies the original version of the workbook file and when it was saved along with the recovered version of the file and when it was saved.

Excel 2007 asks you to choose which version of the workbook to open.

To open the recovered version of a workbook (to see how much of the work it contains that was unsaved at the time of the crash), follow these steps:

1. Position the mouse pointer over the workbook listed in the Document Recovery task pane.
2. Click the drop-down menu beside the document name and click Open on the pop-up menu.
3. (Optional) After you open the recovered version, you can save the workbook.

To save the recovered version of a workbook without bothering to first open it up, follow these steps:

1. Position the mouse pointer over the workbook listed in the Document Recovery task pane.
2. Click the drop-down menu beside the document name and click Save As on the pop-up menu.
3. Save the workbook.

If you want to permanently abandon the recovered version (leaving you with only the data in the original version), click the Close button at the bottom of the Document Recovery task pane. To retain the files for later viewing, select the Yes button before clicking OK. To retain only the original versions of the files shown in the task pane, click the No button instead.