Auto Recover saves unsaved Excel files when the system shuts down. If Excel Excel Auto Recover is not working, take these steps to fix the issue.

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

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 ...

If you lost work to an Excel workbook because of the program crashed or because of an unexpected shutdown, Excel actually has a built-in way to recover your file or the changes made to a file.

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.