Microsoft Excel is a powerful and useful spreadsheet application, which is the part of Microsoft Office suit of products. This application provides a number of features such as charts, formulas, macros and so forth. Among all these options, the most important feature of Microsoft Excel is auto recovery. This feature is included in Microsoft Excel 2003 and 2002 (XP). It helps MS Excel to recover from improper system shutdown or application crash like situations. But this feature is not helpful in all cases and thus can not recover damaged Excel file. In these critical circumstances, you might come across data loss situations and you need Excel Recovery to sort out the issue.
When you try to ope a Microsoft Excel 2003 workbook, after an unexpected system shutdown or application crash, you might encounter 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.”
You might come across this behavior even if the Excel file opens in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel without any problem. After above error message, the file does not open and thus you can not access data stored in it. In these catastrophic situations, you need to find out the cause of this problem and go for excel file repair by sorting it out.
Cause
This problem generally occurs when the Excel file gets severely damaged and auto recovery can not handle it. Due to extensive corruption the file could not be opened and thus the above error message takes place. Along with the unexpected system shutdown, there are several other causes of Excel file corruption such as virus infection and faulty file objects.
Resolution
You can sort out this behavior of Microsoft Excel file by carrying out XLS Repair using third party applications. These software are capable of handling almost all of the Excel file corruption situations.
The excel repair tools use advanced scanning algorithms to ensure successful recovery of your mission critical data. These tools are quite easy to use as they have interactive and simple graphical user interface. With read only behavior, they carry out original recovery.
Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the most popular and widely used application to completely repair and restore damaged XLS files. This software works well with Microsoft Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT.