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File that was never saved | Saved at least once | Versions | Options
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Excel periodically saves a copy of your Excel file. Learn how to recover a file that was never saved and how to
recover a file that has been saved at least once. Workbook

If Excel crashes, it displays the Document Recovery Pane, the first time you open Excel again. This is a quick way
to recover the last autosaved file.
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File that was never saved

If you've never saved a file and you accidentally click Don't Save below when you close Excel (or Excel crashes),
execute the following steps to recover the last autosaved file.

Note: Excel tells you that if a recent copy will be available.

1. On the File tab, click Info.

2. Click Manage Versions, Recover Unsaved Workbooks.

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3. Click the last autosaved file.

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Saved at least once
If you've saved a file at least once and you accidentally click Don't Save below when you close Excel (or Excel
crashes), execute the following steps to recover the last autosaved file.

Note: Excel tells you if a recent copy will be available.

1. Open the file.

2. On the File tab, click Info.

3. Under Versions, click the last autosaved file.

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Versions
When you are working on an Excel file, Excel saves all previous autosaved files under Versions.

1. At any time, you can go back to a previous version of your Excel file.

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Note: Excel deletes all previous autosaved files when you close the Excel file.

Options
To change the AutoRecover options, execute the following steps.

1. On the File tab, click Options, Save.

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Note: you can save AutoRecover information every x minutes, change the AutoRecover file location, etc.

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