Sunday, November 10, 2013

Mac Excel Recovery to Fix Corruption in Shared Spreadsheet


Microsoft Excel for Mac is a very useful and advanced spreadsheet application, which is used by personal as well as professional users. The application is used widely to store critical financial and personal data. You can share Microsoft Excel for Mac files with other users in your organization and can update the file on all computers. However, sometimes Excel file may face corruption and you need to use Mac Excel repair solutions to get your critical data back.
Consider the below mentioned scenarios that you may encounter with your Mac Excel spreadsheet:
·      You have file stored on your computer and two users are updating this file. The file is shared with the file-sharing feature and both users can access the file and make changes to it.
·      For some reason, the file has become inaccessible and can not be shared. You get the following error message while opening the file:
“Excel could not open 2013 filename.xlsx because some content is unreadable.  Do you want to open and repair this workbook?  If Excel cannot repair the file, some data may be lost.”
·      When you try to repair the file by clicking on the “Repair” button, further error message displays:
“The workbook cannot be opened or repaired by Microsoft Excel because it is corrupt.”
This behavior indicates serious corruption to the spreadsheet and you have to recover Excel files Mac using effectively recovery techniques.
If you are facing this problem with a particular file, then the problem is due to serious corruption. The file may get damaged due to various reasons, such as virus infection, application malfunction, system failure, and other similar issues.
In order to work around this problem, follow the below mentioned steps:
·      Use Auto Recovery feature of Mac Excel to retrieve the data.
·      Restore the file from the most recent and valid backup.
·      Repair and restore the corrupt file using third-party recovery tools.
The commercial applications are particularly designed to extract all inaccessible data, such as text, formatting, charts, media, formulas, and other content from the damaged file. They offer simple, quick, easy, and safe recovery of all your precious data.