Windows cannot find xls file

I have looked in appdata , temp folders, made sure I could see hidden files, etc. Save Autorecover is set for every 10 minutes. I duplicated this problem by getting another excel file sent, that had never been on my laptop , opened it, saved it and I can't find it either. Just wonder whether you open the Excel attachment in your Live Mail directly.

Or you first save the attachment to local computer and then edit it. For the first situation, you can edit the Excel file, but cannot "Save", since the attachment is opened as read-only. You must use "Save As" to save the modified version. Thank you, but it prompted me with protected view and I enabled it and then went on to editing it. Over the course of three hours I saved it without any error message and when I closed it down I never received the typical error message that I needed to save before closing.

Additionally, when I attempted to "retrace" what I had done, when I clicked on the file within mail to prompt opening excel, it automatically added a 1 to the title which usually indicates a second copy, or in otherwords it new I had already saved the first.

But where is it? Open the excel file again. One small window with "Immediate" as heading will appear at bottom. Write below line and press enter. Open it and confirm if the changes are visible. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. I have a computer issued by my company and do not have permission.

Tomorrow I will bring it in to my IT department for a resolution to the problem. Can someone explain how to correct this? Thank you for any help. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Vijay A. Verma Volunteer Moderator. The problem of. This should open the file but this may not solve the problem of double clicking the file and opening it.

If there is a file block issue 2. Might want to double check the file path length as well. Recently ran into a similar issue here and it was because the file was getting organized into a DEEP folder, so the file path was insanely long. I believe the cap is around characters before you start getting error windows, which you just click through and the file opens anyway.

Came across a similiar problem, Excel icon was also not showing. Required an Office repair install to resolve. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.

Best Answer. Jared Nov 18, at UTC. It said it corrected a couple of config things without saying what they were , but I still get a failure if I double-click an Excel file with the "Ignore other applications Update 3 -- I managed to fix this problem, but failed at the time to come back and say what I did, and now I can't remember for sure. Something to do with AutoRecover, perhaps. Possibly there was a file in recovery and I had to specify "Disable AutoRecover for this workbook" to let bring-up get past it.

Or perhaps the AutoRecover file location was hosed. Anyway, if it happens to someone else, and you find the fix, post it below and I'll mark it answered. DDE is used so that one program can communicate with or control another program. This forum has some answers that may tell you the exact culprit, but your situation is slightly different. Something somewhere in your registry seems to be conflicting. Using this link as a reference. If you get the problem to come back you can try starting excel in safemode actual location may vary.

If Excel does start in Safe Mode, the cause of the problem is likely to be a corrupt or otherwise misbehaving add-in or other start up file. To test this, move all your add-ins to another folder.

In later versions of Excel, this setting is labelled At startup, open all files in:. Under normal operation, Excel will automatically open all the files that are contained in the folder specified in this option. If this setting is cleared, those files will not be opened. After clearing that setting, close Excel and restart it normally.