If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

No one is safe from a power outage or computer crash, so you need to take every precaution to save your data when working on important documents. This can be helped by enabling and configuring your ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

When you’re recording audio in QuickTime, there’s nothing more frustrating than a crash before you’ve had time to click Save. But all is not lost: This handy trick can help you recover lost recordings ...

If you work a lot in Excel, you’ve no doubt experienced losing a file due to forgetting to save it. If you’ve done a lot of work in Excel on a single project, only to have closed the file without ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2012. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. AutoRecover saves at ...

It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

When opening Microsoft Word (or PowerPoint or Excel) files from the local drive, Office users may get a prompt stating – The Document Recovery task pane contains some recovered files that have not ...

If the Auto Recover feature is not working, there is a chance that it is not enabled. Follow the steps below to enable Auto Recover in Excel. Open the Excel application. On the backstage view, click ...