Having palpitations here! Office 365 Vanishing Window. Need to get VAT submitted by midnight

Rhothgar

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Office Version
  1. 365
  2. 2021
Platform
  1. Windows
Hi all,

I've got 3 spreadsheets open and was working on a side by side with 2 of the spreadsheets.

One of the spreadsheets is a 'template' (actually it's the last quarter's VAT) and it has all the formatting I need to import into Sage as a CSV once I've completed filling it in and saving it out as a CSV.

I've been merrily right-clicking and selecting Hide all morning (and yesterday) and it's right there in the context menu. Problem is, now it's just vanished.

I'm not that familiar with ribbons so I find Hide under View > Window > Hide, I click it and one of the spreadsheets simply vanishes. It's in One Drive but when I click it, it will not open.

As I am working through the bank transactions, I am using Find and then marking with a Fill to show I've entered it so I really need to find this file else it's back to Square One.

EDIT
Can One Drive disconnect or go down? I am cautious of these cloud based auto-saves. The spreadsheet is not in document recovery.

I have just closed Excel down and it asked me if I wanted to save the spreadsheet that's missing so it was floating around somewhere. I saved it but no luck.

It says it was saved to Documents 3 minutes ago. I clicked on the cloud icon on bottom right of Windows 10 and found it in Documents, Excel opens but just as a grey background. Is it possible to hide a spreadsheet from view somehow in Excel? I fear this is what may have happened and I have no idea how to retrieve it or unhide it.
 
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Add Bullets to Range
Select range. Press Ctrl+1. On Number tab, choose Custom. Type Alt+7 then space then @ sign (using 7 on numeric keypad)
PANIC OVER!

I hide the workbook!

It still no clearer on why Hide has vanished from the context menu though.
 
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and the moral of this story is ...
avoid palpitations by getting VAT submitted earlier in future ;)
This is so true but sadly it's in my nature to procrastinate!!! I truly wish it wasn't.
 
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The Hide on the context menu is still missing.

I think it is caused by the side by side comparison even if you maximise the window you want to apply Hide to, it still won't appear.

Minor irritation.
 
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