what happened to my Excel file?
Sep. 19th, 2019 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacI was editing a (rather large) Excel spreadsheet, when all of a sudden, little pull-down menu tabs appeared next to all the column headers. I had never seen this before. Like a lot of weird things that Excel does, it probably appeared when I accidentally hit some key that I wouldn't be able to find afterwards.
I tried to make the tabs go away. Nothing I tried worked. So then I thought, OK, I'll close the file and reopen it. I closed the file, saving it on close (because I had a lot of unsaved data I'd just entered), but when I reopened it, the spreadsheet was gone. The file was there, but there was nothing in it, not even a blank form. (And the size of the file, as listed in Windows Explorer, confirmed this.)
Needless to say, I can't recover it: most recover functions work only for unsaved data, and the instructions for other recover functions all refer to commands grayed out on this file.
What the heck happened?
I tried to make the tabs go away. Nothing I tried worked. So then I thought, OK, I'll close the file and reopen it. I closed the file, saving it on close (because I had a lot of unsaved data I'd just entered), but when I reopened it, the spreadsheet was gone. The file was there, but there was nothing in it, not even a blank form. (And the size of the file, as listed in Windows Explorer, confirmed this.)
Needless to say, I can't recover it: most recover functions work only for unsaved data, and the instructions for other recover functions all refer to commands grayed out on this file.
What the heck happened?
no subject
Date: 2019-09-19 11:13 pm (UTC)Filters
Date: 2019-09-20 01:29 am (UTC)