# Delete or restore a workbook

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User permissions: Budgets & Forecasts and Manage Budgets & Forecasts
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You can delete a budget or forecast workbook if it is no longer useful. For example, you might be in the early stages of the budgeting process and want to start again, or you might have some test workbooks you no longer need. If you later change your mind, you can restore a deleted workbook.

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* When you delete a workbook, the entire workbook is *archived* so it can be restored later.
* If you publish a budget or forecast to a stream and then later delete that workbook, the stream remains. You can [delete that stream](/budgets-and-forecasts/owner-and-administrator/delete-a-stream-budgets-and-forecasts.md), if required.
* If you create a budget based on a stream and later that stream is deleted, your workbook will be deleted.
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## Delete a workbook <a href="#deleteorrestoreaworkbook-deleteaworkbook" id="deleteorrestoreaworkbook-deleteaworkbook"></a>

You can delete a workbook from two locations:

* In the workbook, either click **Budget** >**Delete workbook** > **Delete** or right-click the **Main** tab > **Delete workbook** > **Delete**.
* On your Budgets and Forecasts homepage, click the **Menu** button (on the far right side) of the workbook row, then click **Delete > Delete**.

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## Restore a workbook <a href="#deleteorrestoreaworkbook-restoreaworkbook" id="deleteorrestoreaworkbook-restoreaworkbook"></a>

The **Restore** tab on your homepage acts as an archive, where you can view a list of all deleted workbooks and restore any workbooks you want to use again, such as any that were deleted accidentally. The ability to restore deleted workbooks allows you to *hide* workbooks from view.

On your Budgets and Forecasts homepage, click the **Recovery** tab, then click the **Menu** button (on the far right side) of the workbook row and click **Restore**.

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