Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

Due to various reasons like incompatible upgradation, application malfunction, network issues, and improper coding your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can get corrupted or damaged. To repair a corrupted spreadsheet, MS Excel performs automatic recovery and tries to repair the file. However, if MS Excel does not enter recovery mode, and the file remains corrupt, then you will need to repair manually by using ‘Open and Repair’ utility. But, if manually repair also fails to repair the spreadsheet, then you will need to restore the spreadsheet from an updated backup. However, in the absence of, or in case of deficient, or corrupted backup, you are not left with any other option, but to use a commercial Excel Repair application to repair the spreadsheet.

To thoroughly elaborate the above situation, consider a realistic situation wherein you encounter the below error message while trying to open MS Excel 2000 spreadsheet:

“File Error: Data May Have Been Lost”

The above error message does not allow the spreadsheet to open and makes all its saved records inaccessible.

Cause:

The above error message appears when your Excel spreadsheet is logically corrupted.

Resolution:

To get past the above Excel spreadsheet corruption error message, repair the file using the below mentioned steps:

1. Click ‘Open’ under the ‘File’ menu.
2. Choose the corrupt Excel file and click ‘Open’ button.
3. Lastly, click on ‘Open and Repair’ option to repair the spreadsheet.

In case the spreadsheet remains corrupted even after following the above steps, and you have not maintained any backup, then you will need to repair the spreadsheet using an effective third-party Excel File Repair application. The repair tool is easily understandable and is absolutely non-destructive. It allows the user to save the repaired file at user-specified location.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Repair repairs and restores MS Excel 2000, XP(2002), 2003 and 2007 files, regardless of their cause of corruption. The tool ensures recovery of all Excel file objects, like charts, images, text, formulas, and more. Compatible with almost all Windows operating systems (7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000), the Excel Repair tool does not require any technical skill to perform repair.

MS Excel is the spreadsheet application from MS Office product suite. It enables you to create various kinds of spreadsheets such as bill vouchers, accounts files, etc. It employs several types of accounting and engineering formulas to assist you. However, sometimes the Excel file can get corrupt and inaccessible because of various reasons like virus infections, human errors, abrupt system shutdown, damaged operating system or MS Office, etc. In such cases, you should take appropriate corrective measures to resolve issues. However, if you are unable to do so then you should use a third-party Excel file repair tool to do the needful.

Consider a scenario wherein you open an Excel workbook, which was created in Excel 2002, in Excel 2003. However, you are unable to open the file. An error message is displayed, that is:

“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.”

Cause:

The root cause of this error message is that the Excel file has corrupted owing to various reasons mentioned in the first paragraph.

Resolution:

You can resolve this error message by:

• Opening the file in Microsoft Word (or WordPad) or in Microsoft Excel Viewer.
• Setting the recalculation option in Excel to manual.
• Using external references to link to the corrupted file.
• Using a macro to extract data, if a chart is linked to the corrupted file.

The above-mentioned methods will be able to provide a solution for the error message. However, if you are unable to rectify the issue then you should use third-party Excel repair software to repair Excel file. Such read-only tools are able to repair Excel file from any instance of corruption by scanning the file using fast yet sophisticated scanning tools thereby ensuring safe recovery of corrupt file.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Repair software is an Excel file repair tool that enables you to repair corrupted or damaged Excel files. It is able to repair Excel file by recovering various components such as text, color, formatting, engineering formulas, charts, macros, etc. This Excel repair tool is capable of repairing errors which even the ‘Open and Repair‘ utility is not able to resolve. It supports Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, and 2010 (Beta). This Excel file repair tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.