Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

MS Excel is a spreadsheet application, used in accounts, sales and other such departments of an organization, where calculations are required. With the features like graphic tools, calculations and pivot tables it becomes the indispensable source of great business data for the users.

Excel stores data in the form of multiple cells, which together make a grid of rows and columns. Each cell may contain text or numeric values or a formula which determines the calculations on the cells. As a new corresponding record is received, the file owner adds this to the existing file and a stage may come when the spreadsheet may get overloaded with tons of information. The file size may increase and it may become prone to corruption.

Though there is not any specific file size limitation of Excel file, but as you reach to a point of large Excel files, this may create plenty of problems for the users.

•    Excel files take more time to load and save as they use excessive storage resources. As a result the performance decreases.
•    These files become susceptible to corruption which may cause data loss, especially when the system malfunctions

Generally, in such large files, the updating remains limited to a portion of workbook, rather than whole. Most of the workbook part remains static and unaffected. There are two most important tips which can help avoiding corruption and slow performance like issues with Excel files:

•    Break the file after or before you may find it sluggish in behavior
•    Backup the important files to avoid excel recovery needs

However, if you find them corrupted due to the increased file size, use third party applications which help scanning and repairing the corrupted Excel files. Excel repair tools are the applications, built to offer data safety as well. These can carry out Excel repair in a quite effective manner.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the leading Excel recovery application which uses the powerful scanning algorithms. This Excel repair software supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. The software has an interactive interface, easy to understand excel repair steps and safe restoration features.

MS Excel allows users to do event programming, usable within VBA code. An event is the action which gets started either by some other VBA code or any user action. Using them, user’s actions and changes in the application state can be monitored and along with it, the suitable action can be taken as a response of certain user actions. This tool was first introduced in Excel 97 and remains the same through 2007.

But the problem starts when the user events don’t get any response. MS Excel 2002 may stop acting to these events. Basically, the problem arises when these events switch to asynchronous behavior. When you drop events for COM component and then call Calculate function on the Excel worksheet from the event, the results may not come as expected.

But, in the severe chances it may bring corruption to the file and cause error messages like:

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

The problem starts from a complex worksheet, which is being worked upon by the Calculate function. Now, if while the process application runs in background and foreground window then moves across the application window, it may stop responding. During the process, the calculation starts picking messages from queue and then an asynchronous event is allowed to trigger. As the last COM event and calculation hasn’t completed yet, the next call may cause corruption, which may ask for excel repair.

Excel Repair

Such corrupted worksheets can be repaired and can then be safely restored by excel recovery applications. These are the tools which are programmed to scan the corrupt worksheets through powerful set of algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery uses the most powerful scanning algorithms which proves helpful to repair and restore the corrupted worksheets. This Excel recovery application supports MS Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel 2002 (XP) and Excel 2000.

The virus infection is harsh for the Excel sheets and creates several complications for the user who rely greatly on this spreadsheet program and use the application as the holding stuff of relevant data. The virus may come from different sources including mails, storage media and so on but the ultimate result is awful and creates the need of Excel recovery from the reputed tool. Either of the following error messages may indicate you that the file is actually suffering from virus attack and probably it is corrupt:

“This workbook contains one or more Microsoft Excel 4.0 macros. These macros may contain viruses or other harmful code. These macros will be disabled.”

And

“This workbook contains one or more Microsoft Excel 4.0 macros. These macros may contain viruses or other harmful code. Open this workbook only if you trust the source. Do you want to enable these macros?”

If the Macro Security Tag settings are not ideal, then you may encounter any of the stated error messages.

Reason

The infection in the macros of Excel due to virus is the most probable cause of the problem. While the other one could be related to the defined names. If these names, which are assigned to MS Excel 4.0 macros, also have been used in the workbook, then this could generate the specified error messages.

Solution

If this is due regard of using the defined names in the workbook, then you can remove them to fix the issue. On the other hand, if the file is already corrupted due to virus infection then you can’t escape Excel repair.

Excel Repair is workable through software utilities which are designed for the specific purpose and are termed as Excel repair software. These retain the feature to scan the corrupted file in the influential manner by the use of effective algorithms. These are the corruption case independent software and do offer the great interactivity through the user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery software is the one which can perform Excel recovery for all the specific cases and for all the objects of Excel. With the intuitive user interface, this Excel repair software uses the effective algorithms to do the task. You can use this software as the spreadsheet repair program for Excel 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. Various features of this Excel recovery utility are valuable for the expected results.

Many of the cases report that the Excel files stored on the Windows Home Server based systems undergo corruption. This is when the user attempts to edit or transfer the Excel spreadsheets stored on these systems that have more than one hard drive.

Excel sheets, which is the great destination of restoring the valuable information in the structured way, undergo corruption when the user tries to edit those files. This has been judged that the problem occurs with regard to the way in which the WHS manages the file transfer and balancing, done among the multiple hard drives.

Now if the user attempts to edit the file in the heavy workload environment and timings are not according then the file may become corrupt. The factors like application patterns also contribute to this corruption and the file becomes unusable.

For handling the shared Excel files, WHS uses a mini-filter driver to handle the storage scenarios. For the multiple hard drives, this mini-filter does the redirection of the I/O among the files, stored on the primary hard drive and other ones. Now some faults in this mechanism cause corruption of the Excel files in the heavy workload scene.

Regardless of the cause of corruption, the case to be considered at the topmost priority is that the files are now corrupted and need an Excel repair to get all the data back into action. The affected file may be mandatory from many perspectives including official and business related. This may be of the details of the customers you deal with or the status of the stock and thus Excel recovery via the trustworthy tool is quite important.

Excel repair is workable through Excel repair software which have the capability to scan the corrupted file effectually and retrieve the data intact i.e. without any alteration. These Excel repair software ease the users through the interactivity they avail by user interface and the power to tackle each specific case of corruption.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery software scans and restores all the affected Excel files and does the tremendous job of Excel recovery. Valuable for Excel 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007, this software is able to run the most effective scanning algorithms.

The software has been designed with the most interactive user interface and overcomes the Excel repair issue for all the objects. This Excel recovery software is packaged with several quality features which are valuable for the users in many manners.

Encountering the Excel corruption errors and finding the Excel recovery tools is really a tricky as well as unwanted task. But still excel corruption can’t be avoided and may be indicative through some of the error messages. One such error message is as follows:

“Excel found unreadable content in Book_Name. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook”

This is the error message encountered when you try to open the Excel workbook. Clicking ‘Yes’ in the dialog box may show you a recovery report:

Removed Records: PivotTable report from /xl/pivotCache/pivotCacheDefinition1.xml part (PivotTable cache)

Opening the same file in the Microsoft SharPoint Web Part report page, the error message may appear like:

“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 message is itself stating the cause i.e. corruption. However the other reasons may include problematic nature of the used KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). This is the feature supported by the Excel PivotTable of Analysis Services. KPI is a set of calculations which are defined in an Analysis Services model to represent key business metrics which can be displayed in reports, dashboards, etc. This is possible that one or more KPIs have an expression in the Current Time Member property. So to combat the problem you should try to remove those expressions.

However if this doesn’t solve your problem then the Excel corruption is the sure case, needed to be addressed by the Excel repair tools. Excel recovery is potential through the use of the software designed for this purpose. These software use the powerful algorithms to scan the corrupted XLS file and restore each bit of the information.

These Excel recovery utilities have the wonderful sense to recognize each case of file corruption and resolve the Excel repair issues by providing the graphically rich user interface to the user. Available for different file versions of Excel, the software come with the varying set of features.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the supreme software in this regard. This Excel repair tool does its job for Excel 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. Without altering the view and content of the files, this software gives the graphically rich user interface to the users. The software can repair and restore all the Excel objects like images, charts, formulas and so on.

As the chief accountant of a firm, your daily activities encompass dealing in big transactions and figures that essentially need to be saved and securely stored in the spreadsheets and workbooks. Thus it’s MS Excel all the way and it’s this particular feature of MS Office that always remains open on your laptop screen.

Rampant use of a particular feature may result the screen to freeze for a stipulated period of time but if you are among those whose spread sheets give out the error message “Unable to read file”  while opening and then it is customarily followed by a grey screen, you need to review the situation carefully. When you open it in quick view, you see that the file exists but you are unable to access it. The said error can get reflected in varied ways though the factors instigating it and the manifestations might differ.

Another situation that can prompt the display of the same error goes like this:-

You open an excel file that you have been working on for weeks now and a window message stating, “The workbook you are opening contains macros. Some macros may contain viruses,” flashes on the screen offering you a choice to choose from three buttons that says Disable Macros (default), Enable Macros, & Do Not Open. You are amazed to see this as you get a periodic virus scan done every month and you are dead sure that the concerned file does not have macros. You are further confirmed when you check the Macro menus after opening the file and find no macros but immediately after the macro message you are bombarded with another shock in quick succession “Unable to Read File”. When you try viewing the data by opening the file using the text editor you see that its still there.

If you are encountering a similar problem, do not loose hope because there are times when simple yet beneficial troubleshooting mechanisms set similar complications.

Provided below are a few of them.

•    Norton Anti- virus sometimes conflicts with Excel and creates these faults. The workaround available is uninstalling Norton, uninstalling Office, rebooting and reinstalling Office.

•    Sometimes add-ins hinders proper functioning in Excel. Disable them to gauge the difference.

•    Remove office then remove \program files\ ms office. You will be required to remove excel from the registry file. If you are not an old hand at it, do not try this as it necessitates backing up the registry first and then restoring it in case there are discrepancies while operating the Registry Editor. This might involve reinstalling the operating system and Microsoft support cannot provide any comprehensive solution if your registry is handled incorrectly.

•    Sometimes the files with an .xlb extension that Excel uses to store toolbar information turns corrupt and gives rise to similar complexities. Delete all
the .xlb files you can find to see if it makes any difference but you are liable to lose any toolbar customization that you might have made in Excel.

If these troubleshooting mechanisms work, nothing like it but if it doesn’t better arrange for a backup. You won’t have to search longer cause you have help at hand.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd, a market leader in data recovery and service solutions has come up with a quick fix to troubleshoot this problem with outstanding results.

Stellar’s indigenously devised powerful and robust software Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced Excel spreadsheet repair program, which effectively repairs, recovers and restores corrupt Microsoft Excel files even when they are heavily damaged.  The corrupt file is opened and data recovery tools are employed for extracting data from it.

It’s uniqueness lies in the fact that it performs a through scan of the entire Excel spreadsheet to extract as much data as possible without deleting or modifying any of its original content. The powerful algorithms that back this software enable a comprehensive data retrieval from the spreadsheets by preserving the format of the spreadsheet with all its features intact.

The software supports all the modern file versions of Microsoft Excel including Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel XP & Excel 2000 and is compatible with Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP AND Vista.