How to Recover Excel Spreadsheets using Magic Office Recovery
Magic Office Recovery makes it easy to recover Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODS files, and other supported office documents. This how-to guide explains step by step how to use Magic Office Recovery to restore deleted Excel spreadsheets or recover them from formatted, damaged, repartitioned, or inaccessible storage devices under Windows, macOS, or Linux.
Fast Scan:
The Easy Way
Fast Scan is the best first choice for recently deleted Excel spreadsheets on a healthy storage device.
Fast Scan uses available file-system structures and metadata to locate recently deleted documents quickly. If the storage device was formatted, repartitioned, damaged, or is inaccessible, use Full Analysis instead.
Full Analysis: Content-Aware Recovery
Magic Office Recovery can handle difficult situations such as formatted, damaged, repartitioned, or inaccessible storage devices. When you choose Full Analysis, the program uses content-aware recovery to scan the storage for characteristic signatures of supported spreadsheet formats. When a matching document is found, Magic Office Recovery analyzes the available data and performs an additional integrity check before adding the file to the recovery results.
Spreadsheet Recovery Wizard
Magic Office Recovery includes a step-by-step recovery wizard that guides you through the entire process and helps you choose the appropriate settings. You can use it to recover Excel spreadsheets from a wide range of storage devices, including formatted, damaged, repartitioned, and inaccessible media.
There are two recovery modes available: Fast Scan and Full Analysis. Depending on how the files were lost and the condition of the storage device, you can choose the faster file-system scan or the more thorough content-aware analysis.
Integrity Check and 100% Recoverability Guarantee
Before adding a spreadsheet to the recovery results, Magic Office Recovery performs a final integrity check. If part of a file is damaged, missing, or overwritten with other data, the document may be unusable even if its remnants can still be detected. To avoid filling the results with such files, spreadsheets that fail the integrity check are not displayed. This means that any spreadsheet shown as recoverable has already passed validation and can be recovered intact.
Step By Step Guide on Recovering Excel Spreadsheets
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First, select the logical volume or physical storage device that contained your Excel spreadsheets. For recently deleted files on an accessible volume, select that volume directly. If the device was repartitioned, its file system is damaged, or the storage is inaccessible, you may need to select the physical device instead.
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Next, choose between Fast Scan and Full Analysis. For recently deleted spreadsheets on a healthy storage device, Fast Scan is the best first choice because it uses existing file-system information and completes much faster.
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Use Full Analysis if Fast Scan does not find the required files, or if the storage device was formatted, repartitioned, damaged, or is inaccessible. Full Analysis examines the storage more thoroughly and may take significantly longer depending on the size and condition of the device.
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Magic Office Recovery will search for recoverable spreadsheets. After the scan is complete, the program displays the available files in the results gallery. You can select a spreadsheet to open the built-in preview and inspect its contents before saving it.
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Finally, choose where to save the recovered spreadsheets. Save them to a different physical storage device whenever possible, rather than back to the source device, to avoid overwriting data that may still need to be recovered.
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