Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

Microsoft Excel allows you to fetch data from cells of other workbooks using links. A link is basically a formula that can be used to maintain information in a single workbook when you desire to use information of other workbooks also. When you open an Excel file that contains a linked workbook, the application reads the latest information from it. At times, when you try to open such workbook, it might prompt you an error that Excel cannot read the file. Such problems can be resolved by simply opening the linked workbooks before opening the actual workbook. But if the workbook is not using links and still giving the same file unreadable errors, the file might be corrupted. You should then use your recent file backup to restore the file or use advanced Excel Repair tools to repair the damaged Excel files.

As an instance, you might receive the below error message:

“Unable to read file”

Cause

You might encounter the above error if one of the following conditions is true:

•    You are trying to update links in an Excel workbook that is comprised of links to other Excel workbooks. The links are created when a Microsoft Access report is exported to Microsoft Excel.
•    You are trying to open an Excel workbook and the file is damaged at different portions of its file structure. MS Excel tries to open such files in two attempts: first by detecting the first portion of damage and then starting Excel in Safe mode in order to repair the file and second by examining the rest damaged portions and restarting in minimal-load mode. The above error occurs when the second attempt of opening the file fails.

Solution

To solve such problems, you need to follow these methods:

•    If the issue is encountered when you try to update the links, you should open the linked Excel workbooks before opening the actual workbook.
•    To fix file corruption, you need to use commercial repair excel software. Such repair excel tools use scanning algorithms to repair and restore damaged Excel workbooks.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced solution to repair damaged Microsoft Excel files. It supports excel repair for Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. It can restore all file objects, such as hyperlinks, formulas, charts, pivot tables, macros etc. This read-only software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, and NT.

Microsoft Office Excel is an electronic spreadsheet application, using which you can create spreadsheets by entering numeric or data values and can also perform calculations and statistical analysis. The application also allows you to insert charts, graphs, images, hyperlinks, making the spreadsheets more productive. But the events like unexpected shutdown, application errors, server bugs, network faults, virus infection and others can make the Excel file susceptible to corruption. However, you can apply some tools and use some standard precautious measures to prevent the file from being corrupted. While the file corruption, you need to restore the file from valid file backup available or else use commercial Excel Repair tools to safely repair and restore the damaged file.

MS Excel includes some tools, if applied will help you to safeguard your file against corruption and data loss. Also, you can some data protection techniques:

•    If you are using MS Excel 2002 or Excel 2003, you can use AutoRecover feature that allows you to save the file at specific intervals of time. The process is automated that saves a copy of file in use at a specific location. So, if you experience unexpected shutdown while the feature is enabled, you can restore the saved file from the specified location at next start.
•    In Excel 2000, to get the similar functionality as of AutoSave, you should use AutoSave feature. It works similar to AutoRecover but doesn’t backup the file, instead only saves the file at regular time intervals.
•    In addition to two features, described above, MS Excel also includes an Always Create Backup option. You can use this option to save and retain the earlier version of file whenever you make and save changes to the current Excel file. Thus, the file will not include the most recent changes that you have performed to the file.
•    You should always maintain a file backup and keep an eye on hard disk status. Windows errors can also introduce errors in Excel file.

If applying above measures doesn’t help or you fail to apply them, the odds are that Excel files get corrupted. Such situations necessitate that you use Excel Recovery software. These applications are designed with proprietary technology to scan and repair damaged Excel files and offer safe excel repair

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced tool to scan and repair corrupted Excel files. It is a non-destructive tool that supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. This repair excel file software provides safe file repair options, self-descriptive interface and to the point documentation. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, and NT.

Microsoft Office Excel is an application that allows you to create feature-rich spreadsheets and charts. The application is used in various financial, accounting and commercial area of fields. An Excel file might get corrupt due to reasons like unexpected shutdown, virus attack, application malfunction, Windows issues and network problems. Such events can make your spreadsheet unreadable to read or unfeasible to open. To recover from such situations, MS Excel provides you a method to extract values from such files. You can use external references that might allow you to link to the damaged file. However if the method fails, you can use commercial Excel Repair tools.

If you wish to recover only data and not the whole document, you can use some external references that could link to the file and hence extract out the information.

To do so, use these steps in order:

.    Create two new workbooks, file A and file B
.    Open the file A and select cell A1 and click Copy of Edit menu
.    Open the file B, select cell A1, click Paste Special of Edit menu and then click Paste Link
.    Remove the dollar signs from formula by selecting cell A1
.    Again, click Copy option while selecting cell A1
.    You then need to select an area that is of approximate size as the range of cells containing data in corrupted file is. Click Paste option of Edit menu
.    Click Links of Edit menu while this cell range is selected
.    You will see a Links dialog box, in which you should select the file A and click Change Source. Next, you will see a Change Links dialog box. Select the corrupted file in this dialog box and click OK. If you see Select Sheet dialog box, select the required file and then click OK
.    Click Copy while the cell range is still selected
.    Click Edit menu and then Paste Special.
.    Next, select Values and click OK

The above steps will extract all the data from the affected Excel file. However, if you desire to achieve complete Excel Recovery results, use advanced Excel file repair tools. Designed with safe file repair technology, these excel repair utilities scan and repair damaged Excel files without changing the data integrity.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a comprehensive excel file repair utility for Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is the finest application to restore all file objects including charts, macros, formulas, hyperlinks, charts, tables and others. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a built-in programming language in Microsoft Excel, using which you can incorporate user-written functions in your spreadsheet. Thus, the use of tool adds flexibility to you Excel files, making them more productive. But sometimes, while using VBA projects in your spreadsheet, you find them corrupted giving unexpected results. Thus, to recover from such situations, you need to use your recent file backup. However, if file backup is unavailable or exists in invalid state, you should use third-party excel file repair applications that are comprehensive products to repair a damaged Excel spreadsheet and its components.

As an example, consider that you have two computer systems (computer A and computer B) connected to a Microsoft File Server and you maintain an Excel workbook using a VBA project on one computer A. You edit the VBA project with computer B, but the next time when you open the Excel workbook, it appears to be corrupted. The VBA project doesn’t exist anymore.

Cause

The Excel file is corrupted due to a network bug. Due to this error, if you edit files over network, it might get corrupted. This particularly happens if you use programs from a Windows XP SP 1 installed client and edit files that reside on Windows 2000 Server system.

Solution

To fix spreadsheet corruption, try following these methods:

•    Open the file with ‘Open and Repair’ feature
•    Try to save the file in HTML format
•    Try saving the file in XML spreadsheet format
•    If you have used a chart that is linked to the damaged Excel workbook, you can make use of a macro to extract the possible data
•    Restore from backup that should be completely updated and exist in clean state
•    Use commercial Excel Repair tools to repair the damaged Excel workbook effectively and safely excel repair applications are special purpose tools designed to repair and restore a damaged Excel file in all cases of file corruption. Such utilities embed advanced file repair options, self-descriptive interface, safe data-conduct design and ability to give effective file repair results.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced software that supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It can repair and restore all Excel file contents including macros, formulas, charts, images, functions and others. It has a rich graphical interface and various features to offer. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

A Microsoft Excel workbook can get corrupted due to wide variety of reasons-unexpected shutdown, virus attack, application faults, network errors and more. One of the recommended methods to repair such damaged workbooks is to save them in a different format. It filters the corrupted file for corruption and gives you an error-free file. Since it causes data loss and above all, this method is not feasible in all cases of MS Excel file corruption, you can alternatively use Excel Repair tools that offer safe file repair.
Microsoft provides a unique file format called SYLK (Symbolic Link) to exchange data between applications like Microsoft Excel. SYLK files are saved with .slk extension on hard drive. You can export a spreadsheet data, created with Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition, in SYLK format and get the damaged file repaired. Such files can only contain displayable ANSI characters, which force few restrictions to the file:
.    If the Excel file is Unicode formatted (in Excel 2007), a SYLK file will still be encoded in ANSI code page.
.    Characters displayable in Unicode will be converted to a question mark

However, you can repair the damaged Excel workbook by filtering with SYLK format. But to do so, make sure that you can open the damaged file in Excel:

.    Open the damaged Excel file and click File->Save As
.    You then need to click SYLK (Symbolic Link) in the Save as type list and click to Save
.    Next, you receive a message informing that you have selected a file that doesn’t support workbooks containing multiple sheets. Click OK in this message
.    After this, you receive another message informing that the Excel file contains several features, which are unsupportive with SYLK format. Click Yes in this message
.    You need to first click Close and then Open on File menu
.    You should select the SYLK file created and Click Open
.    Again click Save As on File menu and save it as Microsoft Excel Workbook

If the above steps fail to repair the damaged Excel workbook or you cannot open the damaged Excel file, use of excel file repair tools can bring you the effective results. Excel Repair software are powerful utilities designed to scan a corrupted Excel file and restore it safely.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a comprehensive repair excel file application to repair damaged Excel files. It supports repair of files created with Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. It restores all file objects such as formulas, text strings, tables, functions, charts, hyperlinks etc.  It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, and NT.

Microsoft Office Excel is an application used to create, edit and maintain featured spreadsheets. If any of its files suffers serious error such as that can cause the application to unexpectedly crash, Microsoft Office adds the file to list of disabled files. You cannot directly open such files. Moreover, you might find these files as corrupted after you enable these files. You should use your recent file backup to restore the lost information. But if backup gives errors, you find it invalid to use or no backup is present, use of excel repair applications can scan and repair the damaged file.

You might receive the below mentioned error message while attempting top open an Excel file:

“The document ‘Filename’ caused a serious error the last time it was opened. Would you like to continue opening it?”

You cannot open this file.

Cause

This error occurs if the file to be opened is added to the disabled files for MS Office program.

Solution

To fix such issues, you need to enable the file and hence remove it from the list of disabled files:

•    If you are using Microsoft Excel 2003 or an earlier version, you should click the Help menu and then About Microsoft Office Excel. You then need to opt for Disabled Items, select the affected file and click Enable.
•    In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, you need to click Microsoft Office Button and click Microsoft Excel Options and then Add-ins tab. You can then select the Disabled Items of Manage list. Click Go and opt for the affected file and click Enable.

You can then try opening the file. If the file still doesn’t open, it might be corrupted. Thus, if a valid and clean file backup is available, use it to restore the file. But if you don’t have any valid backup, you can use commercial excel repair applications.

Excel Repair software are read-only tools that can scan and repair a damaged Excel file using powerful scanning algorithms. Such software come equipped with interactive interface and advanced recovery features to facilitate easy recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is comprehensive Excel Recovery software for damaged files. It is an advanced repair excel tool with support to Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It can restore all file objects including macros, charts, tables, graphs, formulas etc. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.