Here are the solution steps: • Go to ~ Library Application Support Microsoft Office Office 2011 AutoRecovery in Finder (on OSX10.7+ this may first require making the Library directory visible using one of the methods described or ) • Change the Extension of the Excel autorecover files of interest from.xlsx to.xlsb • Open the files with Excel (either double click or using Excel's File>Vlc media player for macbook. Open menu) • Enjoy! Keygen free download. Discussion: As described in, if you are lucky, a newer auto-recovery version can often be found in ~ Library Application Support Microsoft Office Office 2011 AutoRecovery. Files in this directory often have somewhat munged/cryptic names, but you can always open them up to find the best one.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Mac OS X key assignment. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Mac OS X keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Hardware, click Keyboard. Mac shortcut for center text. In the Alignment Tab select the following options: Horizontal - Center Across Selection. Step 5: Click OK. Your text will now be centered in the selected cells. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds while your Mac is awake to put your Mac to sleep.* Continue holding to force your Mac to turn off. Option–Command–Power button * or Option–Command–Media Eject: Put your Mac to sleep.

Step 4: Remove Microsoft folders and Office 2011 files Click Go > Computer, and double-click your hard disk icon. The default name of your hard disk is Macintosh HD. Does excel launch successfully if you double-clicking it from within your Applications folder? Before you try to open any saved excel files) Also, if you haven't already after updating, try restarting your computer.

However, in the current version of Excel for Mac 2011 (14.3.1, maybe others) there is a bug that prevents easily opening these backup files. Specifically, the filenames are listed with an.xlsx extension (corresponding to Excel XML format), but are actually in a different format. As a result attempting to open them in Finder or through the Open menu fails, claiming the files are corrupt. The exact error is Microsoft cannot open this file The file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file. Changing the file extension to.xlsb (Excel binary format) or.xlk (older Excel backup) will allow Excel to open the file.

My file system structure turned out to be a little different than that suggested in Bryan P's excellent answer (no Microsoft in Application Support), and I couldn't search for file name since search doesn't work for hidden files. Luckily, there is a tool called. It does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations, where available I was able to use the program to search my whole HD for a word in the title of my lost Excel file, and I found a suitably up-to-date version of the file. I highly recommend using the app to find what OS X deosn't want to show you.