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Excel 2013 formatting a mess
I could use some help. I turned on my Windows 10 computer this morning and the formatting of my excel spreading sheet is a garbled mess. Tens of thousands of once-clean cells now looks like this: ...
Thanks for the suggestion Hans, but that just produced no formatting at all. I need to restore the formatting to it's original form.
Do you have a backup copy of the workbook from before the problem started?
Also:
If you are on Windows: right-click the workbook in File Explorer/Windows Explorer and select Previous Versions. Wait a few seconds to see if the dialog gets populated.
If you are on MacOS: see if you can find a valid version in Time Machine.
I'm using windows and under file explorer I don't see an option for restoring previous versions.
I do, however, save everything to Microsoft OneDrive. I there a way to recover older versions, say 2-7 days old?
Open the file, expand the menu near file name on the title bar
click on version history and restore any of available versions.
- I was able to restore through OneDrive an older version and the formatting is now working, thank you Hans!
