How to open a Excel .tmp File in Windows

[MODESTY]

I am tring to recover an excel .tmp file and it will not open in any program.

[Tejapaala]

A friend of mine created an Excel workbook and after working on it for approximately one hour, she accidentally closed it without saving. I realise that if it wasn't saved, she can't get it back, however, she asked me an interesting question which i couldn't answer. If her PC had crashed and she re-started Excel, it would have recovered the file for her in the Recovery Pane so she wouldn't have lost all of her work so if it is possible to recover it this way, it must have stored it somewhere in its memory, even though it wasn't actually saved. Can anybody answer this question? (By the way, her autorecover is set to every 2 minutes).

[Priam]

Take a look at Tools..Options..Save Tab. this shows where the Autorecover files are saved. It seems to save them in a *.xar format; but Excel will still open it. But unfortunately, the file goes away once you close the file. So, even if she had looked there to find out where it would have been saved, when you choose FIle and Close, this is automatically deleted any way. But it stays there if it crashes? Is that right.