How to recover damaged excel xlsx/xls files?

What is an Excel (xlsx/xls) file?

MS Excel is an application that is developed and distributed by Microsoft for Windows and Mac system. It is very widely used application all over the world because it has several useful features like it is capable of storing large and huge amount of data, formula and calculation features, graphing tool, tables and also macro programming language known as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ). The excel spreadsheet has become popular and it was used widely when version 5^th came in 1993. After this Microsoft has improved the features of the application and launched several version of Excel. The earlier version of Excel such as Excel 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 store the file with xls extension and later version of Excel like Excel 2009, 2010 and 2013 store the file with xlsx extension.

Why we need to recover excel (xls/xlsx) files?

We need to recover excel files due to several reasons. The reasons are your xls/xlsx file may get corrupt or you may not be able to access them due to virus infection, human errors, sudden system crash and many other unknown reasons. And if your excel sheet have critical data then you will definitely look to recover it.

How to recover damaged excel (xls/xlsx) files

Before recovery, I would like to suggest that precaution is better than cure. You can avoid the damage of the excel file from by preventing sudden system shut down while your excel workbook is open, check your hard drive for bad sector, must keep antivirus to detect and remove so that it cannot corrupt excel file. Or you can use the inbuilt utility that come within Excel file to repair your xls or xlsx file

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Well, if your excel file got corrupted, damaged or if you are not able to access them due to any reasons and you want to restore your excel file then you can MS Excel Repair. It is professional software which is particularly designed to repair and recover damagedexcel xls and xlsx files. It has the preview option that allows users to preview the files before recovery. The software is user friendly and hence anybody can use it.