No More Data Loss In Excel File With Excel Repair Tool

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Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that can be used for storing, organizing and manipulating data. Calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and macro programming are the major features of MS Excel. Working with Excel is very easy as it provides user friendly approach and interactive environment. But, like others, Excel file also corrupts or even damages which results in inaccessibility of the file. The data inside the Excel file becomes completely inaccessible and the users face tremendous trouble. If you maintain a backup for the data then it’s good for you even if the file is corrupted. Otherwise you need to go for recovery options.

There are several factors that affect the Excel file and corrupt it. The possible causes that usually corrupt excel file are:

1.Unintentional or accidental system shutdown

2.Software crash

3.Trojan Infection

4.Virus attack

When we try to open an affected Excel file some familiar as well as unfamiliar error messages flashes on screen indicating the corruption in the file. Some of the error messages are:

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

2."This workbook contains one or more Microsoft Excel 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?"

These kinds of errors may appear due to the corruption in the macros which further corrupt the entire workbook. Macros are the predefined functions that execute a series of precise steps within the program when you open a workbook. Due to the malicious executable code in the macros the Excel files exhibit these kinds of behavior. The code inside the macro may corrupt the spreadsheet resulting in making the entire data inaccessible.

Consider a real life scenario where you have made an excel sheet. One day you try to open the file. But the file does not open and displays the following error messages showing corruption in the file.

1.Unable to read this Excel files.

2.This excel file is not in a recognizable format.

3.EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.

For manual repair Excel 2003 & Excel 2007 file, following steps have to be followed:

1.Click Open on the File menu.

2.Go to the Open dialog box and select the file you want to open, then click the arrow next to the Open button.

3.Click Open and Repair, and then select the method you want to use to recover your workbook.

For repairing the corrupted Excel file first we go for manual repairing. Once manual methods fail, third party recovery tools come into practice which are used for performing repair Excel 2007. There are several efficient software utilities available in the market where from you can pick one and can easily recover your corrupted excel files. These tools help in repairing the excel files as well as rearrange the whole data in the same format as they were.

The author is a renowned technical analyst and has specialized in reviewing the performance of various data recovery tools. He has suggested many such tools for Excel data recovery and effective measures that can fix excel file that got corrupted due to various reasons.