Select Excel in the Programs list on the left side, then click the Choose defaults for this program option at the bottom. Click the Default Programs icon, then click the Set your default programs option. Open the Start menu and click the Control Panel option. In the Set Program Associations window, select the Select All option and click the Save button. Select Excel and click the Choose defaults for this program option. Click the Default Programs option, then click the Set your default programs option. 
On the Start screen, type Control Panel and open the Control Panel. You can then associate Microsoft Excel to the various Excel file types (e.g. If you want to select/change file associations manually, in step #3 above, select the Choose a default app by file type option in the search results. The steps above reset the default file associations for Microsoft applications. Scroll down to find and click the Reset button. In the "Find a setting" search field at the top, type default apps and click the Default apps option in the search results. Open the Start menu and select the Settings option. 
Check the box next to Disable hardware graphics acceleration.
Click Advanced, then locate the Display section. You can disable the hardware graphics acceleration in Excel by following the steps below. Sometimes, Excel has issues opening an Excel file and displaying the data due to hardware acceleration for the graphics card in the computer. Uncheck the box next to Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).ĭisable hardware graphics acceleration in Excel. Click Advanced, then locate the General section. In the Ribbon, click the File tab and click Options in the left navigation pane. To correct this issue, try the following suggestions below. This issue is often caused when Excel's settings are changed (usually inadvertently) to ignore external programs. Click Recent and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click Recover Unsaved Workbooks (see the screenshot below).Sometimes, when a user opens a saved workbook, it is blank. Then go to the File tab on your Ribbon and click Open. You can access a video showing the following steps at the bottom of the page.įor the first scenario described above, the way to recover your never- before- saved file is to, first, open Microsoft Excel. 
Either way, your files may be recoverable but would be recovered in different ways. Let's consider two scenarios when you may want to recover your work: (1) You are working on a new file and have never saved the file at all or (2) your previously saved file closes before you can save the changes made since your last save. The good news is that, most of the time, your file can be recovered. The best approach to avoid this scenario is to use autosave, but that doesn't solve the problem posed in the question. It's a terrible feeling when you have put so much work into your file and suddenly you are forced to close it without saving, or the application closes on its own. 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 my work?Ī.
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