My Excel 2007 Files seriously corrupted

[NealReyd]

Dear Experts,

All my excel files have been corrupted and I'm unable to open any of them.
I tried couple of free download for excel file recovery in google but non of them helped me.

I see message from Microsoft Excel: Your file is severey damaged unable to recover is the message I am getting.

Please help me....as they are some critical files.

Thanks in advance..

 

[Alex0013]

Hello,

Try the following:
1. Open Excel 2010.
2. Click on File > Options.
3. Select Trust Center > Trust center settings.
4. Select Protected view.
5. Uncheck all the options under Protected View > OK.
6. Restart Excel 2010 and try to open Excel documents.

Credit to: "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened" error on office - Microsoft Community

 

[Michael M]

Have you tried any of these


Repairing a corrupted workbook - Excel

 

[NIk654]

I tried all it, but nothing. I have a corrupt Excel file that I need repair quickly. Which is the best excel recovery tool at the moment? I'm using Excel 2013 on Windows 8.1. The data is very important, so I do not want to do any experiments.

 

[Michael M]

If you google data recovery, there are many sites that will do it for a fee or sell you a product to do it.....but depending on what caused the corruption, will decide whether the data can be recovered or not.
Have you tried any of the steps in the previous posts ??

 

[NIk654]

Yes I have tried all the steps, but I had no luck. I searched on Google for a good recovery tool and i found three options, Datanumen, Cimaware and Stellar Phoenix. Each tool has a different price, but I need a fast solutions, so what do you think? I mean, what tool should I use?
Thank you for your reply.

 

[mole999]

how did they all become corrupted, that sounds like bad file management rather than excel.

2013 should read 2007 without any issue, 2013 read in 2007 would be a totally different matter.

are they across a network, how are the backups, if you start excel without addins, do they open

does anyone still use a lower excel version

any hard disk crashes

 

[Michael M]

It would be really hard to advise on any product without knowing, as mole has stated, what caused the issue.

 

[NIk654]

Hi again, I want just say that I've found the solution and I could repair my excel file.
Thanks for the support anyway.

 

[mole999]

share the solution so others may benefit