If you lost an audio file due to the dreaded QuickTime crash, this tip could save the day. Image: PSD.Graphics/Ste Smith When you’re recording audio in QuickTime, there’s nothing more frustrating than ...

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 ...

Need to recover an “unsaved” Excel file from your hard drive? Hoping it was saved by your “Autosave” feature? If you haven’t done anything else to the file yet, it should still be there waiting for ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

No one is safe from a power outage or computer crash, so you need to take every precaution to save your data when working on important documents. This can be helped by enabling and configuring your ...

You may be able to recover an unsaved Microsoft Word document if the document is closed in some fashion without being saved. There are multiple methods for recovering an unsaved Word document, but no ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

The sanity-saving Manage Presentation capability is available on all of the current Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I wrote about this a couple of years ago (see “How ...