Open the Office application that you were using. Click the File tab. Click Recent. Scroll to the bottom of your "Recent Documents" (Office 2013 only), then click "Recover Unsaved Documents" if you are in Word, "Recover Unsaved Workbooks" if you are in Excel, or "Recover Unsaved Presentations" if you are in PowerPoint.
Can I get an Excel spreadsheet back that I didn't save?
For the first scenario described above, the way to recover your never-before-saved file is to, first, open Microsoft Excel. Then go to the File tab on your Ribbon and click Open. Click Recent and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click Recover Unsaved Workbooks (see the screenshot below).
How do you recover unsaved Excel file not in Recover unsaved?
It's called AutoRecover and here's how to use it to get back an Excel file that was not saved.
- Launch Excel and go to the File tab.
- Click Open and then select the Recent Workbooks option on the top left.
- Scroll down and click the Recover Unsaved Workbooks button.
