Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

MS Excel, a Microsoft provided spreadsheet application, permits users to create and edit spreadsheets, graphs, pivot tables and more. Excel versions, earlier to Excel 2007, use to store the files in Binary File Format, BIFF, where data is stored in series of fixed-size streams. These files are stored with .xls extension. On the other hand, Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML format, which is backward-compatible. This version uses .xlsx extension to save its workbooks. If these files get corrupt due to any reason, Excel Repair is required.

If workbook gets corrupt, the content may become unreadable or the application may start behaving abruptly with some error messages. In some of the cases, when user tries to open a workbook in Excel 2003, the attempts may fail with an error message:

“Errors were detected in ‘filename.xls,’ but Microsoft Excel was able to open the file by making the repairs listed below. Save the file to make these repairs permanent.

Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been lost or corrupted”

The reason is file corruption which needs Excel Recovery. This is also possible that opening the same file in an earlier version of Excel may succeed. So, this can be corrected by opening the file in an earlier version. However, if the user has both the versions installed on the same computer system, then the contents of the file can be copied in a new file of Excel 2003 by opening it in the earlier version of Excel.

In order to repair the corrupt Excel file, we need to use third party excel repair software which use the scanning algorithms, examine the corrupt file, repair it and restore it to the safe location. Excel Recovery software are equipped with interactive interface and so, no prior technical skills are required to use these software.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is excellent and robust Excel Repair software. The software is compatible with Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. With the use of powerful scanning procedures, this excel recovery software repairs the corrupt file completely and safely.

A damaged Excel workbook needs Excel Repair for sure, but if not the whole but only certain type of data that matters in the file like formulas and format, then we can extract that information by copying its contents to a new file.

•    For Excel recovery, first, we need to click File->Open, browse to the folder which contains the damaged Excel file and then click Cancel. After this, a new Workbook is opened and in the first cell of this file, the damaged filename is typed as =File Name!A1. A dialog box appears from where the damaged file can be selected and then a Select Sheet dialog box appears, from where we need to select the sheet required and click OK. We can then click the Copy option of Edit menu after selecting cell A1. After this, we require to select an area, taking into consideration that it should be approximately equal to size as the range of the cells in the corrupt file is. Next, we need to click Edit->Copy and then Edit->Paste Special, select the values and click OK.
•    Alternatively, Excel recovery can also be performed using a different method. In order to extract data, we need to simply open two new workbooks. In the first one, we need to select the first cell A1 and then click copy and paste it in the first cell of second workbook by first clicking Paste Special and then Paste Link option. We need to remove the dollar sign that appears in the A1 cell of second workbook and then copy the cell. As done in the earlier method, we need to select an area that should be roughly same in size as the range of the cells containing data is in the corrupt file. At next, we need to click Paste and then Links. A Link dialog box appears, where we need to select the name of first workbook and then click Change Source, after which another dialog box appears called Change Links, where we can select the corrupt file and then the sheet from Select Sheet dialog box and click OK in the Links dialog box. Next, we need to copy the selected cell range and click Edit->Paste Special, select values and click OK.

The mentioned methods helps extracting formulas, format and other such damaged file contents and not the complete file. Also, the methods may not work in all situations for Excel repair.

For complete excel recovery, third party applications can offer a help. Excel repair software can scan and extract the lost information from the corrupt files safely. Excel recovery software are highly interactive and offers safe restoration.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery uses the powerful scanning algorithms to extract lost information from corrupt Excel files. Compatible with Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000, this excel repair software can recover all the file objects including charts, images, formulas, hyperlinks and others.

MS Excel is a worldwide popular application, offered in MS Office suit, which allows you to create spreadsheets, featuring various graphing and calculation tools. Until Excel 2007, the proprietary file extension used was .xls, which is also known as BIFF (Binary Interchange File Format). The file format scene changed in Excel 2007, when Office 2007 introduced a new set of file formats for its applications including MS Excel. In Excel 2007, the new format is XML-based, Office Open XML. Excel 2007 uses .xlsx extension to save the workbooks.

In few of the cases, while attempting to open an Excel spreadsheet, user may get the following error message:

“This file is not in a recognizable format”

As an Excel recovery way, if the affected file is tried to be opened in word or notepad, user gets nothing but the gibberish view of the contents.

Reason

The prime reason why the mentioned error message appeared could be the corruption in file, which implies that we need to apply some excel repair solution. The Excel file corruption can be attributed for virus attacks, unexpected shutdown, application faults, and network issues if the file has been downloaded.

•    Apart due to corruption, the specified error message can also appear if the user is attempting to open a Microsoft Works 3.0 or 4.0 file in Excel. Microsoft Works is an Office suit with fewer features and less functionality and core components include word processor, database and a spreadsheet.  MS Excel doesn’t allow opening Microsoft Works 3.0 and 4.0 files in it.

Corrupted Excel file can be repaired through specialized excel recovery software, which treat these files through powerful scanning algorithms. Excel repair software are designed with interactive interface and so Excel recovery steps become easy to understand and follow.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery uses the most powerful scanning algorithms to scan and recover the lost information. This Excel repair software is compatible with Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. Excel recovery can be accomplished through few steps: specifying the file path and destination and clicking to repair.