When opening Microsoft Word (or PowerPoint or Excel) files from the local drive, Office users may get a prompt stating – The Document Recovery task pane contains some recovered files that have not ...

If your computer crashes or locks up while you are working on a document in OpenOffice.org, your work may not be lost permanently if you have enabled the OpenOffice AutoRecovery feature. This feature ...

It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Microsoft has released a new file recovery app that might ...

Sometime earlier, we learned the simple technique of changing the Save AutoRecover information time limit in Word. AutoRecover feature, as you know, comes in handy when there are any unplanned ...

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 ...

Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've all done it. A project is going well, and you're working through the list of jobs that need doing. You format a drive or ...