If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

You’ve spent hours working on an Excel workbook on a MacBook, but now it’s gone. Or, when you exit an Excel file, you unintentionally select “Don’t Save”. Is this to say that your entire effort has ...

Microsoft Excel has several features designed to help you recover unsaved versions of spreadsheets and prevent data loss. If Excel closes before you save a file, you should see a Document Recovery tab ...

If Microsoft Excel fails to recognize a file in the XLSX or XLS format, the data contained in the file could be corrupted. When you open a corrupted workbook in Excel, the program should automatically ...

Most of us have experienced that moment when you delete a file only realize you need it back. Here's how to know when you can get that file back and how to do so. If you're unsure whether you ...

Q. Help! I have been working on a very important Excel file for a client, and suddenly my computer locked up and says, “Excel is not responding.” Is there anything I can do so that I don’t lose all of ...

If you work a lot in Excel, you’ve no doubt experienced losing a file due to forgetting to save it. If you’ve done a lot of work in Excel on a single project, only to have closed the file without ...