Sometimes you can accidentally save the wrong version of an Excel document and want to recover the previous version of the file. Don't worry, it's feasible and will take only 5 minutes of your time.

This feature is technically known as file versioning, and it keeps old versions of files available should you ever want to go back to them.

If you lost work to an Excel workbook because of the program crashed or because of an unexpected shutdown, Excel actually has a built-in way to recover your file or the changes made to a file.

Sometimes, you need the day-before-yesterday's version of a file. Here's how to get it.

If you want to restore a Previous Version of a File or Folder in Windows 11/10, then this post will help you using built-in backups.

Whenever a system restore point is created, shadow copies of your files are also created alongwith it. But your machine must be enabled to create system restore point.

See There are no Previous Versions available message? Enable Previous Versions to recover files on Windows via File History or Task Scheduler.