Tutorial of Formatted XLS Files Recovery

In this article we will learn something about Microsoft XLS files and the method of formatted XLS files recovery.

About XLS Files

Microsoft XLS (short for 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 the most widely used spreadsheet application available for these platforms since version 5 in 1993. Excel is part of Microsoft Office.

XLS is the first spreadsheet that allows the user to define the appearance of spreadsheets (fonts, character attributes and cell appearance). Excel has extensive graphing capabilities, and enables users to perform mail merge. Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) as its primary format.

XLS files are indispensable in our work and study, especially to store the data such as account, record, etc. which is very important for individual person or companies.

About Formatted XLS Files

Here we talk about formatted XLS files, actually, XLS files in formatted storage media such as hard drive, USB external hard drive, SD cards, memory stick, etc.

As we know, all files in hard drive will be gone if we format it. But we have to encounter some situations besides format which will cause data loss, for example,

• Accidental format
• Virus attack
• Critical file system structures loss or corruption

Any of those reasons will lead to partition table loss or RAW files system, and we could not access the partition and get tips to format the hard drive. We are probably confused, and then trapped if we are not professional, the directly solution to the above problems is formatting hard drive. It seems we solve the problem, indeed the partition is accessible, but all files include XLS files are also lost.

Solution to Formatted XLS Files Recovery

After partition is formatted and XLS files are lost, many people will be frantic and regret formatting XLS files. Unlike DOC files which are created in a comparatively shot time, XLS files are accumulated day by day and month by month which is impossible to redo. So it's very critical to search for a method to recover formatted XLS files.

We should recover the formatted XLS files once we encounter data loss, because the faster we perform format recovery, the more chance we get to recover formatted XLS files. Here we can choose professional format recovery software to perform formatted XLS files recovery. Here EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is highly recommended, because it can do a formatted XLS files recovery well.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is professional files recovery software, which could help us recover formatted or deleted files such as XLS, DOC, JPG, etc. from all storage media such as internal hard drive, hardware RAID, USB drive, SD card, memory stick, etc. under Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7.

Steps to Recover Formatted XLS Files

Step A: Launch the software, and choose a module to recover files according to method of data loss. "Deleted File Recovery" is for deletion recovery, "Complete Recovery" is for format recovery and some other kind of data loss, and "Partition Recovery" is used when partition is lost or deleted. Here we choose "Format Recovery" to recover formatted XLS files.

Step B: Select the file types you want to recover.

Step C: Choose the partition where there are lost XLS files to start searching.

Step D: Choose and preview the lost XLS files that we want to recover and then select a directory to save them.

We could free download demo version to scan and preview lost data in external hard drive and use full version to restore and save them. Just feel free to try it when we need to recover formatted XLS files.

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