Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery

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.

MS Excel spreadsheets are used for a variety of purposes whenever we think of storing data in a tabular format.  This format facilitates visibility and renders access to data in a fluid and comfortable manner but error boxes that appear when you add new charts to a workbook should not be dealt with lightly as they are the precursors that intimate us about impending data loss situations that might wreak havoc in our lives.

Provided below are a few common error messages that flash on the screen when new charts are added to a workbook in MS Excel:-

•    “Not enough memory” error

•    Run-time error ‘1004′:
Method ‘Add’ of object ‘Sheets’ failed (this error occurs when  you are using a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro to add chart sheets to a workbook)

Instances when these error messages are most frequently reflected:-

•    When you attempt to add a new chart to a workbook
•    When you try to access the chart data source
•    If you have added more than 124 charts to a workbook when editing the workbook in Microsoft Excel 97 or Microsoft Excel 97 Service Release 1
•    If you have used multiple fonts in the worksheets of your workbook
•    If you have opted to use the embedded charts
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Encrypting the data for security purpose is the most commonplace at work. When you want to safeguard your data from unauthorized access, encryption is the best technique that you can follow. But some of the Excel users do not find the same as they may feel some excel file corruption after performing this security solution.

The Excel file can be encrypted by several of the options available and RC4 MS Strong Crypto Provider is one of them. If this method is used to encrypt the file under Windows Vista then the result could be the Excel file corruption
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All is set and now you want to store the data on the Excel Workbooks and when you start the application you discover that after the logo display of Excel, you receive an error message which announces:

“An Error Occurred Initializing VBA Libraries”

Or

“The Timer driver is not installed on this system. Microsoft Excel cannot run without the Timer driver. Choose the help button for more information.”

The VBA libraries contain all the required functions and tools for the VBA objects and for the multimedia applications, the functions to manage them are stored in a module called mmsystem.dll. If this has a wrong entry in the system.ini or is damaged, then it can result in these error messages. So it is always recommended never to disable it so that the essential applications like MS Excel may work properly. It may also happen that you have some of the drivers installed that have modified the entries in the system.ini.
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Dealing with the registry keys settings is a very sensitive task and hence needs to be handled with care. The data corruption in Excel workbooks is a very common procedure that could happen due to several reasons like application malfunctioning, virus attack, unexpected system shutdown and lots more. But Ms Excel contains a feature through which you can extract data from corrupted Excel workbooks in some of the instances. And for rest of the instances in which the Excel corruption is more, there no other way to have Excel Repair software.

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Excel sheets are frequently used as web pages for revealing information on the internet by users. These worksheets provide an informative source of information to others. But in some cases after making worksheets on your system and then after saving it when you try to save it as a web page the Microsoft excel quits without saving it and you encounter a message which is referred as Drwtsn32.log. And states like

“EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.
An error log is being created.”

The main reason behind this is when the workbook is already corrupted and you try to save it as a web page. The main platform for the above stated error is Windows 2000. The crashing of a saved workbook can be a big loss to the user as it may contain some of the useful information on which he/she has worked for past few days and nights and when it comes the time of saving it as a web page the error encountered can lead to a big traumatic condition of the data loss and the first question that comes to the user’s mind is what to do in this condition? Well Microsoft says “Simply don’t worry”
To solve it all you need to do is to install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a) update.
There are certain limitations associated with this update like it can not update administrative installations of Microsoft office 2000.

If even after adopting the mentioned solution you are still back to the problem from where you started and you data are still at the stake of loss and you are worrying about it then our suggestion would be don’t panic we are here for your data rescue.

If you look into the market you will find a variety of file repair software which repair your damaged XLS files and fix them as it is. Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is one of the best among them which provides the ultimate solution to your problem. It adopts the most powerful algorithms for the repair of damaged files and helps to restore them. Excel Repair software never modifies the content of files and is capable of repairing them even if they contain URL’s. It works perfectly for Excel 2000 and provides a user friendly and interactive interface which simplifies the procedure.

When you try to open an Excel workbook in Microsoft Excel 2003, you may get the following error message:

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.
This error message occurs when you open an Excel workbook in Excel 2003 that opens in earlier versions of Excel without any problem
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