If you're looking for an easy way to recover unsaved Excel files, this is the guide for you. We'll show you how to recover unsaved workbook quickly and easily, so you can get back to work.

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.

This feature is technically known as file versioning, and it keeps old versions of files available should you ever want to go back to them.

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.

To recover the file, open Excel once your computer is working properly. A Document Recovery pane should appear with all unsaved Excel files listed (see the screenshot below). Choose the file that you ...

If the data is not available in a previous version of the document, you can use a third-party recovery application, such as "Repair My Excel," "Recovery for Excel" or "Advanced Excel Repair" to ...

Sometimes, you need the day-before-yesterday's version of a file. Here's how to get it.