How do I recover excel file opened through email and not saved

Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
Really urgent and really important.

Thanks

Can't be that important if you didn't stop occasionally to save a copy.

Your work is gone.

Re-open from the email and start again.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:44:04 -0700, Liane <Liane@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
>email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
>Really urgent and really important.
>
>Thanks

It was because it was so important that I didn't stop working on it, and
anyway I thought my excel was set up to save every 10 minutes !
--
Liane


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

> Can't be that important if you didn't stop occasionally to save a copy.
>
> Your work is gone.
>
> Re-open from the email and start again.
>
>
> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:44:04 -0700, Liane <Liane@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
> >email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
> >Really urgent and really important.
> >
> >Thanks
>
>

If you're lucky, you may find it under your Temporary Internet Files folder
(depending on what you use for your email client).



Liane wrote:
>
> Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
> email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
> Really urgent and really important.
>
> Thanks

--

Dave Peterson

Thanks for your advice, I have already looked here though and its not there!!
--
Liane


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> If you're lucky, you may find it under your Temporary Internet Files folder
> (depending on what you use for your email client).
>
>
>
> Liane wrote:
> >
> > Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
> > email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
> > Really urgent and really important.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>

Excel can keep track of the most recently used files.

If you open excel and click on File, do you see the filename at the bottom of
the dialog?

How about using windows Most recently used list?
Windows Start button|Documents
Is it there?

How about using windows|search for *.xls that were updated in the last day (or
so)?



Liane wrote:
>
> Thanks for your advice, I have already looked here though and its not there!!
> --
> Liane
>
> "Dave Peterson" wrote:
>
> > If you're lucky, you may find it under your Temporary Internet Files folder
> > (depending on what you use for your email client).
> >
> >
> >
> > Liane wrote:
> > >
> > > Spent 5 hours working on a spreadsheet I'd opened as an attachment to an
> > > email, didn't save it!!!!! Is there anyway of recovering this document??
> > > Really urgent and really important.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dave Peterson
> >

--

Dave Peterson

Liane

Which version of Excel are you using.

There has been no Autosave in Excel since version 2000

Newer versions have only the Autorecovery feature which, if the file is closed
normally as yours was, deletes the temporary Autorecovery file.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:43:01 -0700, Liane <Liane@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>It was because it was so important that I didn't stop working on it, and
>anyway I thought my excel was set up to save every 10 minutes !