Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Recovering from Crashes

In the past, "crash recovery" largely involved an initial flurry of expletives followed by a brisk walk around the office and perhaps a couple of aspirin. Office Excel 2007 provides something beyond comfort and sympathy for digital mishaps—an actual mechanism that attempts to tuck away open files before the program comes screeching to a halt. And it works pretty well. If Excel encounters a problem, it attempts to save any files that were open at the time the problem occurred, before bad things happen to them when the program crashes and burns.

Using AutoRecover

Although Excel has greatly improved its ability to recover lost work after a crash, you should take advantage of the additional insurance provided by the AutoRecover ...