We’ve all been there—staring at a locked Excel file, unable to make the edits we desperately need because the password is nowhere to be found. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Whether it’s an old file you ...

Microsoft Excel has several features designed to help you recover unsaved versions of spreadsheets and prevent data loss. If Excel closes before you save a file, you should see a Document Recovery tab ...

If Microsoft Excel fails to recognize a file in the XLSX or XLS format, the data contained in the file could be corrupted. When you open a corrupted workbook in Excel, the program should automatically ...

Q. Help! I have been working on a very important Excel file for a client, and suddenly my computer locked up and says, “Excel is not responding.” Is there anything I can do so that I don’t lose all of ...

You’ve spent hours working on an Excel workbook on a MacBook, but now it’s gone. Or, when you exit an Excel file, you unintentionally select “Don’t Save”. Is this to say that your entire effort has ...

A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive content safe, ...

The Mac operating system provides a way for you to lock Excel with a password to prevent unauthorized use by using Keychain Access. Removing this password requires ...

If you work a lot in Excel, you’ve no doubt experienced losing a file due to forgetting to save it. If you’ve done a lot of work in Excel on a single project, only to have closed the file without ...