Microsoft Excel has several features designed to help you recover unsaved versions of files and prevent data loss.

Need to recover an “unsaved” Excel file from your hard drive? Hoping it was saved by your “Autosave” feature? If you haven’t done anything else to the file yet, it should still be there ...

How to Recover a Microsoft Excel File That Is Not in a Recognizable Format. If Microsoft Excel fails to recognize a file in the XLSX or XLS format, the data contained in the file could be corrupted.

For the first scenario described above, the way to recover your never-before-saved file is to, first, open Microsoft Excel. Then go to the File tab on your Ribbon and click Open. Click Recent and then ...

Sometimes you can accidentally save the wrong version of an Excel document and want to recover the previous version of the file. Don't worry, it's feasible and will take only 5 minutes of your time.

If you see The Document Recovery task pane contains some recovered files that have not been opened, every time you launch Word, PowerPoint or Excel, see this post.

How to Recover an ASD File. A file with the file extension of ".ASD" is an automatically-saved backup file for a Microsoft Word 2002 or 2003 document. The Microsoft Office Word application ...