Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Need to recover an “unsaved” Excel file from your hard drive? Hoping it was saved by your “Autosave” feature? If you haven’t done ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

No one is safe from a power outage or computer crash, so you need to take every precaution to save your data when working on important documents. This can be helped by enabling and configuring your ...

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 ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

When you run a Microsoft Office program such as Word after forgetting to save a document, the program automatically lists autosaved files in the Recovery pane. Once you close this pane, the list ...

Microsoft Word has become the go-to tool for crafting documents of all kinds with millions of users worldwide. But what happens when the unexpected occurs, and your system crashes, leaving your ...

Microsoft Office programs automatically save a copy of open files every ten minutes by default. Whenever the user closes a file without saving it, the user can always return to the most recently save ...

The sanity-saving Manage Presentation capability is available on all of the current Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I wrote about this a couple of years ago (see “How ...