I think I'd start looking for a file with a similar name (or modified in the
last week (or two)).
Maybe you saved the real copy to a different location.
You can use windows start button|Search to look for it.
If you were unlucky enough to overwrite the real file with a wrong (blank) file,
then unless you have a backup, your file is gone.
Any chance you've backed up to a CD/DVD/floppy?
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It kind of sounds like your mouse or keyboard was sticking. If you ctrl-click
on another file, it adds to the selection (in windows explorer). Shift-click
will extend the range.
I'd gently tap the ctrl-keys, shift-keys, and even the mouse buttons (right,
left and wheel mouse button if you have a wheel mouse).
Danny Cazier wrote:
>
> I have an excel file in which I track my family's finances. I access it
> several times per day. When I started up my computer this evening and went
> to open the file, it opened up empty. None of the worksheets are present.
> It is identical in content to a new (i.e. freshly created) file. When I
> examine the file properties, the date created suggests that it is the same
> file I have been using all year. The file name is unchanged. But the file
> size is only 13.5KB, the same size as any other brand new, empty excel file.
>
> Any thoughts on what might have happened or how I recover this file?
>
> For what it's worth, when I started up the computer this evening, it
> displayed a number of inexplicable problems. The most persistent of them
> was that I could not click on a single file/folder within a parent folder
> without several other files/folders also automatically selecting themselves.
> I don't know whether this has any bearing on the problem.
>
> As this is a critical file, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Danny
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