Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that features support for various complex calculations, graphing, VBA programming etc. Microsoft Excel 2003 and earlier versions use .xls extension to store data in their files, while Microsoft Excel 2007 uses .xlsx as its proprietary file format. These files get corrupted due to reasons like Microsoft Office corruption, addons, virus etc. So, if you don’t have updated data backup, Excel Recovery solutions can provide key to repair and restore damaged Excel files and recover all lost information.

In cases of Excel file corruption; it may fail to open with an error message as:

“The document <file name> caused a serious error the last time it was opened. Would you like to continue opening it?”

Here, file name refers to the name of the affected Excel file.

Cause

As the error message suggests, the file being tried to open is facing issues due to unexpected crash. If an Excel file quits unexpectedly more than twice, the application adds the file to the list of disabled files. Such files can’t be opened by Excel anymore and shows error messages like given above.

Solution

•    If unexpected crashes have not affected the file to the extent of corruption, it is possible to recover lost information by removing the file from disabled files. To do this, you need to click Help>About Microsoft Office Excel>Disabled Items. It will show the list of disabled items. You can select the required item and then click Enable. In Excel 2007, you need to click Microsoft Office Button>Excel Options. Then in the left pane, you need to click on Add-ins and then click Manage listed in the right pane. You can then select the desired Disabled Items and click on Go.
•    If problem persists or some file corruption error message is encountered after removing one or more item from the list of Disabled Items, it will require excel repair solutions. The file has been corrupted and it needs to be repaired. You can go for Excel ‘Open and Repair’ feature to try repairing the affected file. If file corruption issue remains the same, third party file repair software should be used to regain lost data. These Excel tools can scan damaged files for repair and extract inaccessible information from them. These applications can be used quite easily because of their interactive interface. Third party Excel Recovery software use powerful and safe algorithms to restore damaged files.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery provides a power packed answer to all Excel Repair issues. This excel recovery software can repair and restore all file objects including charts, images, graphs, pivot tables, macros and others. It is compatible with Excel 2007, 2003, XP (2002) and 2000. It supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

When you try to open an Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel may not recognize the format of Excel file and the process may fail with an error message. It could be due to corruption to the spreadsheet that requires excel recovery to fix the problem.

In this situation, you may encounter one or more of the following error messages:

“This file is not in a recognizable format.”

.    If you know the file is from another program which is incompatible with Microsoft Excel, click
Cancel, then open this file in its original application. If you want to open the file later in Microsoft Excel, save it in a format that is compatible, such as text format.

.    If you suspect the file is damaged, click Help for more information about solving the problem.
.    If you still want to see what text is contained in the file, click OK. Then click Finish in the “Text Import Wizard.”

Or

“Filename: File format not valid.”

Or

“SYLK: File format not valid.”

Or

“File not loaded completely.”

You may encounter these error message more than once. After these error messages, Excel can not access the data from the spreadsheet and you encounter critical data loss problems.

Grounds of this issue

You may encounter these error message if any of the following conditions are true:
.    The Excel file is corrupted due to virus infection, application malfunction, improper system shutdown and other similar reasons.
.    You have specified “Alternate startup file location” that contains files which can not be recognized by Microsoft Excel.

Irrespective of the cause of the logical issue, the ultimate result would be the inaccessibility of data and data loss. To gain access of your critical data, you need to resolve this problem by performing Excel Repair.

Resolution

There are two ways to fix this problem:
. If the problem is due to invalid “Alternate startup file location”, then change it.
. If corruption is the cause of this issue, then repair and restore the file using third party tools.
The Excel Recovery software are specially designed to scan the corrupted Excel file and extract data from it.

These software are very easy to use and thus do not require sound and prior technical skills. The software always performs safe and  non-destructive recovery due to read-only behavior.
Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the most powerful excel repair tool that can recover all your charts, formulas, hyperlinks, pivot tables, text and other Excel objects. It supports recovery from Excel 2007, 2003, 2002(XP) and 2000. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4.