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I made some incorrect changes and clicked 'Save' in MS Excel. 'Undo' failed.
Excel does not have an option to create backup files, like MS Word does.
The AutoRecover option saves files in C:\Users\Jan Doggen\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\
and I found an Excel11.xlb
file in that folder, but it turns out that is only a settings file.
I know of two options that I have:
Use recovery tools (ASAP) to scan erased file space for an Excel file with the same name, and hope these retrieve something useful - not likely I think, because a few incorrect bytes in an Excel make it unreadable.
Go back to an older version I have in a backup. Luckily I do.
Are there maybe more options that I overlook?
I scanned my C: partition for file names that could indicate previous versions, but I found none.
Undo failed, alas (sorry, should've mentioned that). Didn't know about 'Track changes', I'll look it up. – Jan Doggen – 2014-08-09T21:47:56.397