Is it possible to recover data that has been erased on a excel 2000 spread sheet? Please note that this is not a file recovery issue as the file hasn't actually been deleted. What happened was a user clicked on "Save As" in Excel and thought they had clicked on "Open". In the process, they selected an important spreadsheet, click on what they thought was "OK" to open and before they realized what they had done, they had saved a blank spreadsheet over one with the data. The user stated they saw the warning message stating that a file already existed with that file name, but they clicked on yes anyway. Thus the spreadsheet that had all the data on it is now saved as a blank one. Is there anyway possible to get the old data back? I tried doing the Undo, but it was greyed out. My data recovery software finds the file, but it's the blank one, not the one with the data in it. This is tricky because the file wasn't actually deleted, it was just resaved as a blank spreadsheet. No hope?

U R Screwed. Got any backups? That's one of the main reasons for backups.

If you had AutoSave enabled it may be listed under another file name possibly beginning with the $. Larry

thanks for the replies guys, I figured it would be a pretty screwed scenario. User has no backups, she'll probably be doing it all the time now, lol.