How to Recover Data from Corrupt Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets on Windows/Mac?File Repair Tool Blog

MS Excel is a spreadsheet application tool that is made for creating electronic spreadsheets documents. Spreadsheets- part of Microsoft office is generally used for managing data, storing and organizing data. MS Excel program is intended to store workbook in electronic form. With the help of Microsoft Excel program, you can create professional spreadsheets and charts.

With this, you can prepare several other documents such as balance sheet, tax statement, sales and purchase statement etc. Even you can calculate your income and expenses with the help of MS Excel. Ms Excel is popular for dashboard reporting in market and because of this MS Excel has become an important part of all businesses and other organization. MS Excel is not only used in organization or businesses but it is also used in education and also in home purposes. Ms Excel is used for keeping records in schools and in institutes of their students and staff. This has the ability to store all data and information in a file called as XLS file. But it saves the file in xlsx extension in the updated 2007 and 2010.

MS Excel offers some advanced features but it also creates some serious problems such as file corruption. When such problem occurs, it can become a dangerous situation if you don’t take any action against such type of corruption. There are many factors that are responsible for spreadsheet to be corrupted. Below mentioned are some of the reasons which make spreadsheet corrupt. They are:

• Due to improper shutdown when there is a sudden power outage
• When hard drive contains bad sector or unwanted crash in hard drive
• Due to virus infection on spreadsheets and its application
• Software malfunctions or collision with each other
• Due to unexpected cancellation of files and application

Mentioned above are the reasons which lead to MS Excel spreadsheets corruption and they become inaccessible or becomes unable to open. When your MS Excel file gets corrupt, there occurs many errors like “Excel cannot open the file abc.xlsx because the file format or file extension is not valid” or “The file is corrupt and cannot be opened”.

Such type of errors when occur in excel spreadsheets, they are unable to open or become inaccessible. And all those data that are stored in the file gets damaged or corrupt. At this situation, there are only two options to repair the corrupt file. Using “open and repair” function of MS Excel and recover data from damaged files by using third party software.

Open and Repair– You can use this option to repair the corrupt files. For that, first you need to open MS Excel application on your system and after that hit on Office button. Now hit Open from list after which small window will appear. Choose the corrupt or damage file from the system directory. After that hit on arrow of Open button, list will be seen from which you have to hit on Open and Repair. By doing this, you’re corrupt or damaged file will be repaired and will open on MS Excel. Even you may try to import your data from corrupt XLSX file to new file. This solution will be beneficial for you.

Third-party recovery tool– Third party recovery tool is used when the above mentioned solution fails. However, third-party recovery tool has the ability to recover maximum data from corrupt files. Therefore you can use MS Excel File Repair Tool. This tool is designed to recover and repair the damaged or corrupt file. This repair tool easily recovers deleted excel spreadsheets with some other things such as images, charts, formatting, hyperlinks etc. It recovers each and every file object from corrupt spreadsheets of Microsoft Excel. It also resolves all the errors from corrupt XLSX files and makes them error free. With the help of this recovery tool, you can easily repair and get everything back in your excel file.

Steps to recover Recover Data from Corrupt Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets:

Step 1: Download the recovery software and after that hit on “OK” button to start the process.

Step 2: To recover the corrupt file, hit on “Select file” button. BY using the “Look in” you can search from particular logical drive.

Step 3: Select the corrupt file from the search list with the help of check box. After that hit on “Select all” and hit on “Start” button to begin the scanning process.

Step 4: As soon as the scanning process completes, you can view your corrupt files.

Step 5: At last, hit on the “Start repair” button to begin the repairing process. Select the perfect location to save your repaired excel file and after that hit on “OK” button.