Recover an earlier version of an Office file Excel for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Excel 2021 PowerPoint 2021 Excel 2019
If the AutoRecover option is turned on, you can automatically save versions of your file while you’re working on it. How you recover something depends on when you saved it.
If you don't find the desired file, go to the next method.
If you’ve saved the file
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Open the file you were working on.
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Go to File > Info.
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Under Manage Workbook or Manage Presentation, select the file labeled (when I closed without saving).
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In the bar at the top of the file, select Restore to overwrite any previously saved versions.
Tip: In Word, you can also compare versions by clicking Compare instead of Restore.
If you haven’t saved the file
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Go to File > Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Workbooks in Excel, or Recover Unsaved Presentations in PowerPoint.
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Select the file, and then select Open.
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In the bar at the top of the file, select Save As to save the file.
What if still can not recover an earlier version of an Office file?
Try Aidfile recovery software:
Use "Undelete" to recover office file after shift delete, Virus attack,Recycle bin clear,disk cleanup,Press shift del by mistake,permanently empty recycle bin,shift delete ,accidentally deleted by a mistake.
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Use "Recover partition" to recover office file from deleted/damaged/lost/changed partitions .
Use "Full Scan" mode to recover office file which can not be found with "undelete" and "unformat" and "recover partition" ,recover unsaved Word documents from raw partition,recover unsaved Word documents of partitons which are not NTFS,nor exfat,nor fat32 after showing an error,display as raw file system,unformatted,unknown partition,unpartitioned,needs to be formatted.
After you recover the deleted or formatted document such as ".asd" file, you can save it and move it to the C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word path, then open the MS Word.Word searches for AutoRecover files every time it starts. Therefore, you can try using the AutoRecover feature by closing and reopening Word. If Word finds any automatically recovered file, the Document Recovery task pane opens, and the missing document should be listed as "document name [Original]" or as "document name [Recovered]." If this occurs, double-click the file name in the Document Recovery pane, select File > Save as, and then save the document as a .docx file. To manually change the extension to .docx, right-click the file, and select Rename.
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