Excel: Utilities That Can Recover Damaged Files

 Last reviewed: September 12, 1996
Article ID: Q109675
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a

SUMMARY

Utility programs for personal computers often include a file recovery utility that you can use to recover damaged or corrupted files. Various third-party utility applications, including Symantec's Norton Utilities version 7.0 and Central Point Software's PC Tools version 8.0 for MS-DOS, contain file recovery utilities that are capable of recovering damaged Microsoft Excel worksheet files.

NOTE: Norton Utilities versions 7.0 and 8.0 cannot recover data from Microsoft Excel 4.0 workbooks.

In Microsoft Excel, another way to recover damaged worksheets is through external linking. In certain cases, you can link a new worksheet to a damaged sheet and recover the last evaluated result in each cell.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about linking worksheets to recover corrupted files, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   corrupted and recover and link
If this process is not successful, you may still be able to recover the file using a file recovery utility program, such as those mentioned above.

Norton Utilities and PC Tools are manufactured by a vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

KBCategory: kb3rdparty
KBSubcategory: xlwin

Additional reference words: 3.00 3.00a 4.00a




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Last reviewed: September 12, 1996
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