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I HATE, HATE, HATE, excel.
Two solid weeks of slogging out my speadsheet is GONE!! i HATE EXCEL!!
I hate me, I hate redink, I hate the world.
But most of all, IHATEHATEHATEEXCEL
Well, not redink, just me.
and you
and husbands
and children

especially children that make you lose concentration and you click the wrong thing. I'm gonna go be sick

Trys to think of the right thing to say...maybe "Would ou like cheese with that wine."...or a sensitive "Well just remember we are all behind you."...choices choices

Ack :-/ I've had that happen with lots of things... Legos, D-Mods, and other projects.

The best advice it so make daily backups of things that you modify regularly, copy and paste the file, then rename it to something like "myexcelspreadsheet_20040106.xls"

GRRR!

Still, it made me laugh.

Get in there and hex edit the File Allocation Table to find the memory sectors and extract the spreadsheet from those. Use a parser to piece them together and bingo, one excel spreadsheet.

You're right. And I thank heaven I did that Monday. Yesterday's & today's work was not backed up but I can recoup. Thank you for the good advice. I have the new 2003 version and it's a tad different from the older version..


One thing tho: Legos??

Vacuum cleaner and a collander.

Wow. I luv ya man.
However, I didn't understand one thing you said. But you are a sweetheart for trying to help. Guess what? I found the spreadsheet in a different spot. It was still there the whole time but somehow I put another spreadsheet over it. I'm saved!! Whew. Thanks Merlin. You're a good guy.

oohhh, that explains it. Hmm

This reminds me of when I was betweeen 1-2 years old (it's not me that remembers), and my father was in college at the time, and I used to come around and press the restart button the computer when he was working on his thesis.

We have a lot of power outages that kill me, and anything i am working on...especially when they last for a day, that really sucks.....

Hey my son does something like that. He's 3 and loves to press space bar (mainly because of the "Finding Nemo" website and it's virtual camera game). That and his other favourite trick is finding the power button and pressing that.

That's an easily solvable problem. Unhook your power button and reset button and install a new "stealth" switch in one of your drive bays. If you are feeling *really* tricky you can rig up your cd-rom drive with another button (Or if you have one of those useless stop/play buttons) and connect that to the port.

If that's too much work, grab an IR led receiver and have the computer turn on when a specific frequency is received (yes, it's possible). Most likely you should adhere to the ones on your television remote control. Just point it to the computer and press power and voila! - computer on.

Hmmm, I think a quick but stern reprimand is faster.

dang! Merlin you have some Sick, Phat, tricks up your sleeves.