Best formatted excel document recovery software

Why we need formatted excel recovery software?

Excel is an electronic spreadsheet program that can be used for storing, organizing and manipulating data. Billion dollar portfolios and positions can be managed and traded using Excel spreadsheets.

Sometimes, we need to format a partition because of many different reasons. For example, computer users may need to quick format your hard disk when you want to convert the FAT file system to NTFS file system, to adjust the size of a partition, to reinstall the operating system, or to just delete useless files. But after these quick and convenient formatting, all the data, photos, audios, videos, and documents could be formatted, too, including the MS excel documents.

At this time, you need use the third party tool to do formatted excel recovery. Is there any way to recover formatted Excel documents? A free MS excel recovery software will be the best choice.

Best free MS excel recovery software

After a long time seeking and experience, I find EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. Compared to other free data recovery software, it provides easy and quick data recovery solutions. Even if you don't use data recovery software before; you can also use the software smoothly and successfully. More importantly, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can recover 1 GB data free of charge. It provides not only a deleted file recovery solution, but also provides formatted file recovery and partition recovery.

MS excel recovery freeware

How to recover formatted excel document?

Here is the step-by-step instructions of how to recover files after format:

Step 1: Launch the software, and click "Complete Recovery" module.

Step 2: Select the file types you want to recover. Tick 'Search all lost files automatically' to find all lost file types. Tick 'Ignore bad sectors' to skip bad sectors when scanning.

Step 3: Then a list of volumes on the drives found in your system will be listed. If the volume does not have a drive letter, then the volume will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".

Complete recovery module for format MS excel document recovery

Step4: Choose the volume that was formatted with your lost MS excel document and click "NEXT" to start searching on this volume. The Intelligent Searching mode will scan the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes on which files are possible.

Step 5: After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you choosing 4 volumes at best to recover the formatted MS excel files. And then, press "NEXT" button.

Step 6: Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the excel document.

NOTE: If the hard disk has mistakenly deleted volumes, hidden volumes, drives with failed operation/file system, you should use "Partition Recovery".

If the MS excel document is just been deleted, please follow How to recover deleted excel document from computer with freeware? to get the deleted excel document back.

If you are running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) & 10.6 (Snow Leopard) & 10.5 (Leopard), please go to see EaseUS Mac data recovery software.

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