Excel gone from my PC

havekidsamskint

Help!

I had microsoft excel on my pc and it has just disappeared. I last used it about 7 days ago. COuld this be because of power failure or is it findable

plese help, my budget is on excel so I really need to be able to get it

thanks

Chippy_Minton

Start - Search. Search for excel.exe and create a shortcut to it.

espresso

Search for excel.exe on your PC.

Llyllyll

Gone from where? Has the shortcut you usually use disappeared? What version of Office are you using? What OS do you have?

As a first step try doing a search on your hard drive for 'EXCEL.EXE'. This will at least confirm whether or not the application itself is missing or just the shortcut.

Let us know how you get on.

havekidsamskint

apologies first, I know nothing about computers:embarasse

I am using windows xp on my laptop.

I tried to search but do I search for files or folders or computer

Gilly

espresso

havekidsamskint wrote:

apologies first, I know nothing about computers:embarasse

I am using windows xp on my laptop.

I tried to search but do I search for files or folders or computer

Gilly

Search for files.

havekidsamskint

still searching, should it take this long?

havekidsamskint

search is complete, there are no results to display

Llyllyll

Start -> Search -> Files of Folders

In the 'All or part of the filename box' enter: Excel.exe

espresso

havekidsamskint wrote:

still searching, should it take this long?

How long is a piece of string?

How big is your hard drive?

How fast is your processor?

Is the file on your PC?

:eek:

espresso

havekidsamskint wrote:

search is complete, there are no results to display

If you have searched for excel.exe and it has not been found, you have not got it on your machine anymore assuming that you searched all drives i.e. C: etc.

Time to re-install.