Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros enable you to extend Microsoft Excel features. Using macros, you can automate the formatting, charting and other often-performed tasks. You can also use them to display custom forms and interact with other applications. But at times, you observe that your Excel spreadsheet is corrupt and you can’t open the file. One of the possible reasons could be macro corruption. In such situations, you need to restore data from your recent data backup. However, if data backup is unavailable, not up-to-date or damaged, excel recovery tools can be used to repair and restore the lost data.

Consider a practical scenario, you open an Excel file that contains VBA macros and disable the macros. After this, you modify the VBA code and save it. Next time, when you open the file with macros enabled, the file fails to open. Alternatively, if you try to open the same XLS file with macros disabled, the application hangs and you can’t access your file.

Cause

The Excel file is corrupted or damaged. If you make some changes in the VBA code while you have disabled the macros, they get corrupt. When you reopen the spreadsheet and enable the macros, they do not run properly and corrupt the file.

Solution

To resolve the above issue, you need to follow these methods:

•    Try opening your damaged XLS file with ‘Open and Repair’ feature
•    Save the file in HTML format. This allows your file to filter out some information
•    Save the damaged file in XML spreadsheet format
•    If there is a chart that is linked to the damaged spreadsheet, you can use a macro to extract data
•    If the problem persists, you need to use your recent data backup to restore the affected files
•    If the backup is non-existent, incomplete or invalid, you need to use XLS Repair tools.

Excel Recovery software are indigenously built tools that scan and repair damaged Excel files. Such software applications come with interactive interface, advanced repair abilities, read-only design and automated recovery procedures. In addition, you can use these products in any case of file corruption due to software issues.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced excel repair tool. The software can repair and restore file objects like macros, formulas, charts, images, links, embedded functions, tables, text strings etc. The software supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. This Excel Recovery tool is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet application. Excel 2003 and the later versions use a proprietary binary file format to store information, whereas Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its primary file format. An Excel file can get damaged due to network errors, unexpected shutdown, virus infection and other similar causes. In such cases, you need to use an up-to-date and valid data backup to restore the lost information. But if such backup is not available, Excel Repair tools can revamp and restore the damaged Excel files.

Consider a scenario, where you try to open an Excel file and encounter the below error message:

“Your Anti-Virus software has blocked the file you were trying to open.

You should ensure your Anti-Virus software is fully up to date and try opening the file again. It is important to note that the blocked file may also contain a virus which your Anti-Virus software has not been able to remove. In this case you should treat the file with caution.”

You can’t access your file after this error message.

Cause
The above error message gets encountered when one of the following conditions is true:

.    The antivirus software you are using has expired or its signature files are out of date
.    You are trying to open a virus infected file
.    You are attempting to open a damaged or corrupted file

Solution
To resolve the above issue, you need to apply these methods:

.    You need to update your antivirus software and its file signatures.
.    If the file is infected from virus, you need to restore a healthy copy of it from backup. However, if backup is not available or causes errors during health check or restoration, you need to use commercial excel repair tools that can fix damaged Excel files.
.    To correct the corrupted Excel files, you need to follow these methods:

.    Use Open and Repair feature to open the file
.    Try saving it in HTML format
.    If a chart is linked to the damaged file, you can use a macro to extract data
.    Scan the damaged file using third-party Excel Recovery tools.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the finest Excel Repair tool that scans and repairs the damaged Excel files. The software can repair file objects like tables, images, hyperlinks, formulas etc. It supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. This repair excel software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

MS Excel is a popular spreadsheet application, provided by Microsoft. The application uses ‘back seeking’ as a technique to read and write its files. In this process, MS Excel doesn’t read/write data in sequential manner, but instead does it randomly. As an example, it may jump between records to read/write the information. As a result of this, your Excel files can get corrupt. The probability of corruption increases when you save Excel files to a floppy disk drive or network drive. In such cases, you need to restore lost data from an updated and valid data backup. But, if you face issues during restoration of data, you will require commercial Excel Repair solutions to scan and repair your damaged Excel files.

Consider a scenario, you try to open an Excel file from a floppy disk drive or network drive and it fails. Alternatively, you get corruption errors that the file is unreadable or you observe unreadable characters in file.

Cause

The Excel file is damaged or corrupt. Excel file saved on floppy disk drive or network drive can go corrupt due to ‘back seeking’ technique that MS Excel uses to read/write data. This can also occur if a conflict occurs when MS Windows virtualizes hard disk controller.

Solution

To repair damaged Excel file, you can use these methods:

•    You can save the affected file in HTML format
•    Use Revert To Saved Document command and try to repair the file
•    You can use external references in order to link to the damaged file
•    Attempt to open the file in MS Excel Viewer and MS Word
•    If any charts are linked to the damaged Excel file, you can use a macro and extract the data
•    You can also use MS Excel File Recovery Macro
•    If the problem persists, delete your damaged file and restore it from recent file backup
•    If the backup is invalid or not available, you can use third party excel recovery tools. You can scan your damaged file and safely get the file repaired. These are safe and graphically rich Excel Recovery applications.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a powerful excel file repair tool to revamp and restore damaged Excel files. It is a safe tool with read-only design. You can easily use this software because of the interactive interface it offers. This tool supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. The application is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application with advanced functionalities and features. You can include graphs, pivot tables, charts, formulas etc. Excel is used in different fields like accounting, report generation and more. From Excel 97 to Excel 2003, the spreadsheets are saved in the .xls format. Microsoft Excel 2007 uses another XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based format which is named as .xlsx. At times, you may face issues related to file corruption while opening these spreadsheets. Excel provides automatic recovery mode to solve minor corruption problems with Excel files. If you reopen the affected file, it will try to repair and restore it. But, in case of potential spreadsheet damage, you may need to scan your file with efficient Excel Repair tools.

Consider a scenario, you try to publish a workbook to a Microsoft SharePoint Web Part report page and it gives the following error:

“The workbook that you selected cannot be opened. The workbook may be in an unsupported file format, or it may be corrupt. Would you like to try and open this file in Excel?”

The error is specific to Excel 2007. As an additional symptom, when you try to open this workbook, you get unreadable content error.

Cause
The above error occurs when one of the following situations is true:

.    The file contains PivotTable that uses KPI (Key Performance Indicators) and one or more of them have an expression in Current Time Member property.
.    Excel workbook is damaged or corrupt

Solution
To solve the issue, you need to follow these steps:

.    Try removing expressions from Current Time Member properties
.    Repair damaged Excel file:

.    Open the file with ‘Open and Repair’ feature
.    Try to link the file from a new workbook
.    Open the file in MS Word, WordPad or Microsoft Excel Viewer
.    If a chart is linked to the file, use a macro that can extract data
.    Use commercial excel recovery solutions to scan and repair your damaged Excel file.

XLS repair software are special tools to scan and repair your damaged Excel files. These applications feature read-only design, rich graphical interface, advanced options and precise documentation. You can use these software in almost all cases of Excel spreadsheet corruption.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the finest Excel Repair tool to revamp and restore damaged Excel files. This read-only tool can restore all file objects like pivot tables, charts, images, hyperlinks, graphs etc. It supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. The software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

MS Excel is a spreadsheet application with advanced features like graphing, macro programming, mathematical calculations, pivot tables, etc. Unlike earlier versions (MS Excel 97-2003) that use Binary file format as their proprietary file format, MS Excel 2007 uses Open XML format. This format is safer when file is required to be sent over a network. It is also popular for offering additional functionality to the user as by its ribbon based design. Similar to earlier Excel files (.xls), these files (.xlsx) can also get corrupt due to reasons like MS Office errors, virus infection, network faults etc. In such cases, situations like data backup unavailability or backup corruption lead to the need of excel repair.

As a practical scenario, you can get the following error while attempting to access an Open XML format based spreadsheet:

“Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

Excel may stop responding after this error message and you can’t access file contents.

Cause

The above error message may get encountered because of the below reasons:

•    You have selected non-contiguous selection in file and saved it as Open XML format spreadsheet
•    Open XML format spreadsheet is damaged or corrupt.

Solution

Based on the above causes, you need to follow these steps to recover from the situation:

•    Obtain the latest hotfix to prevent further issues due to non-contiguous selection and saving.
•    If file is damaged, try these steps to recover:

.    Try to open the file with ‘Open and Repair’ option. For this, click Microsoft Office Button-> Open and select the damaged spreadsheet. Next, click on the arrow next to Open tab and click ‘Open and Repair’. To recover possible data, click on the ‘Repair’ option and to extract values and formulas, click on ‘Extract Data’.
.    If the problem persists, use your recent data backup to replace the affected file with a healthy copy.
.    If the backup is unavailable, not updated or corrupt, the last option is to use third party Excel Recovery applications.

About Excel Recovery Software

Also termed as Excel Repair software, these applications are designed to scan damaged Excel spreadsheets followed by efficient repair and restoration. These tools can repair and restore all charts, images, embedded functions, text strings, hyperlinks and other objects of Excel files.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a powerful, secure and advanced tool to repair damaged Excel spreadsheets. The application supports repair and restoration for both .xls and .xlsx format of Excel spreadsheets. The excel recovery software is compatible with Microsoft Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. It supports Windows Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.