How to recover excel xlsx/xls files?

About excel xlsx/xls files

Before we introduce excel xlsx/xls file recovery software, let's learn something about excel xlsx/xls. Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office. The current versions are Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows and 2008 for Mac. In late 2009, Microsoft released the beta version of Microsoft Excel 2010. Xlsx is the default Excel 2007 workbook format while xls is the file extension for Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002 and Excel 2003.

How to recover excel xls/xlsx files?

Did you ever think that one day you will need to recover lost or corrupted xlsx/xls files? This is important for users that keep their work in Microsoft Excel workbook and have not make a backup. If your xlsx/xls files are lost due to accident deletion, format, virus attack or any unknown reasons, now you should find a excel data recovery solution to recover your lost excel xlsx/xls files. Here a free xlsx file recovery software is recommended to get your lost excel xlsx/xls files back.

Free excel xls/xlsx file recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is one of the best ways for recovering excel information if somehow it was lost. There are a variety of problems that can lead to excel xlsx/xls data loss. This can happen due to power failure or file system corruption, it means, that all of your documents, including Microsoft Excel files, may not be accessed.

Another possible reason is virus infection. There are a great number of viruses, some of which are made to damage Microsoft Office documents. When the virus is deleted or cured, you may note, that you are unable to open your documents in Microsoft Excel format.

Please follow the ways below to do excel xls/xlsx recovery:

Step A: Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition, and choose a module according to the reason for data loss. "Deleted File Recovery" is for excel xlsx/xls deletion recovery, "Complete Recovery" is for excel xlsx/xls file format recovery, and "Partition Recovery" is used when partition is lost, deleted or corrupted.

Step B: 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 C: Select the partition which contains the lost xls/xlsx files and click "NEXT" to start searching, and then you will see a list of volumes where data loss possibly happens. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step D: Choose and preview lost xls/xlsx files that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save files on the healthy partition.

You can free download the free xls/xlsx recovery software now with the detailed instructions to have a fair idea whether your lost xls/xlsx files can be recovered. Apart from recovering xls/xlsx lost files, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard also supports recovering variety of multimedia files, and does other Microsoft office recovery, etc.

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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