I have many many backups, though I would be hard pressed to know where each
left off, so that wouldn't help much, as I've upgraded the file daily.

As I mentioned, I have one with only about 7 minutes less work in it, and in
fact, it was all formatting. The problem, at least in my confused mind, is
that I feel that, just because it crashed at time t, does that really mean
that what I did between time = t - 7 and time = t is really the source of
the corruption? Even, if so, which operation is the one that caused it to
crash, the one I should not redo?

Even one with 20 hours less work might have the corruption, as 95% of the
formatting was input 100 hours ago and I am pretty sure the problem is
related to the formatting, not the equations.

My deeper, darker fear is that the file could be somewhat overloaded and
that this kind of crashing will recur. It would be great to know exactly
what the cause of the crash was, if it really is one thing. Is that
knowable? I guess my only guess would be the very last thing I did when it
crashed, if I could remember that.

Dean

"Beege" <bwgilmanhah@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:44089b36_1@newsfeed.slurp.net...
> Dean,
>
> Does your company backup files? If so, you may have one with < 8 hours of
> catching up. If not, back up often to different locations.
>
> Beege.
>
>
> "Dean" <Whooshbopbang4@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:keednX34Nd8_F5XZ4p2dnA@adelphia.com...
> My EXCEL crashed and when it recovered, in addition to an original, it
> offered me a 7 minute old version and a pretty current "repaired" version.
>
> When it crashed, I was in the midst of mostly inserting and revising cell
> comments and miscellaneous formatting stuff. I wonder which is the better
> file to use going forward. Is there anyway to find out what the repair
> was, which might help me to decide?
>
> This is a monster file I have been developing for months!
>
> Thanks!
> Dean
>