Nowadays, we can’t predict the longevity of software applications because of various problems. You should note that software applications like Microsoft Excel are prone to corruption and failures. As a software user, you should not wait until the last minute until the file generated by Microsoft Excel goes into sleep mode. Imagine, you have an important team meeting and the valuable Excel file you created doesn’t work as expected. What will happen if you don’t have a backup copy? How will you face the meeting? It is in this scenario, you should make effective use of third-party software programs such as Stellar Repair for Excel using which you can easily repair the Microsoft Excel file. We recently worked extensively with Stellar Repair for Excel. Does it meet our desired expectations? In this review, we will examine the features and the usage of Stellar Repair for Excel in detail.

Installation

To work with Stellar Repair for Excel, you should first perform the required download and subsequent installation process. The Stellar Repair for Excel can be easily downloaded from the official website. The capacity of the installation file is less than 15MB and the download process was extremely quick. You will be able to install the Stellar Repair for Excel within less than 2 minutes depending upon your system configuration.

If you had purchased the software, you should activate it by providing the license key. You should select Buy Online menu option on the ribbon bar and select Activation. You should copy and paste the license key. The software will be activated within seconds and you can work with the tool. The Stellar Repair for Excel even tells you the next step, which includes opening an Excel file from your local hard drive.

Features

The Stellar Repair for Excel enables you to repair corrupt or damaged Microsoft Excel files. With the help of the tool, you will be able to resolve corruption issues in Microsoft Excel. The Stellar Repair for Excel identifies corruption factors in individual objects including fixing the damage in data. You will be able to restore and recover all components in a blank Excel file. The tool is capable of repairing all the Tables, Charts, Chart-sheets, images, formulae in addition to cell comments of XLS and XLSX files. The software also preserves cell formatting and worksheet properties and retains original integrity in the repaired Excel files.

The Stellar Repair for Excel automatically repair corrupted excel files and restores the contents to a new blank Excel file. Moreover, the properties of the original file will remain intact. The tool is developed to scan all the components of selected spreadsheets. It also provides a free preview of recoverable objects, which will help users to find out the accuracy of Excel repair utility.

The main highlight of the Stellar Repair for Excel is that it is capable of repairing multiple Excel files in a single attempt. You can create a batch of all Excel files to repair and save them at the respective location. You can search for the corrupted Excel files with the help of “Find File” option. The Search Folder option provides a list of all Excel files located in a particular folder. You will be able to select multiple files simultaneously. If you have a corrupted Microsoft Excel file, then you should make use of the tool to fetch the complete Excel data.

Working

To work with the tool, you should double click the Stellar Repair for Excel desktop icon. The software will display a message box and then the Select File dialog. You can directly navigate for the Excel file without manually selecting the option from the ribbon Toolbar.

The next step is to keep your Excel file intact inside your computer. You should then select Microsoft Excel file that needs to be repaired by clicking “Select File” option from the Toolbar. The tool doesn’t provide any menu bars but the modules are placed inside the ribbon Toolbar.

You will view a new window with the caption “Select File”. You can locate the corrupted Excel file by selecting “Browse” button. Alternatively, you can let the tool search for the corrupted XLS file by selecting “Search” button.

The Stellar Repair for Excel will display the parameters of the selected file inside the Select File window. You should select “Repair” button to perform the repair process.

The tool will display the progress bar during the repair progress as shown below. The time required to complete the repair work depends upon the capacity of the Excel file.

The Stellar Repair for Excel displays the log report towards the bottom portion. The report helps you to know whether the Excel file has been repaired or not including the repair time. Moreover, the Stellar Repair for Excel displays the repaired file inside the tool after the completion of the repair process. The tool also pinpoints the portion inside the Excel file via a message box.

You can either remove the repaired Excel file or will be able to save the file. You should select “Save File” option from the ribbon Toolbar. The tool will display the dialog, where you will have to select a destination folder. The relevant repaired Excel file will be saved to the desired location.

You can activate or deactivate the Status Bar and Message Bar by selecting the relevant options from the Toolbar as shown below. If you deselect Message Bar, you will not be able to view the log report. The below figure shows the log report but you can deselect the Message Bar option to checkout the functioning.

The Tools menu on the Toolbar (as shown in the figure below) helps you to save and clear log files. You can also check for the presence of the software update by selecting “Update” option. Stellar is a great company and they release updates frequently. Hence, you should checkout for the availability of the update once in every two weeks.

As the name indicates, you can access documentation and knowledge base in addition to the technical support platforms from the Help menu.

Conclusion

Stellar Repair for Excel is a useful tool for securing your data from corruption and permanent data loss. I found all the features are useful and easy to use. So we highly recommend you, use this software to get back your excel files.

Microsoft Excel is an advanced spreadsheet solution, which is available along with Microsoft Office package suite. The files created using Excel are subject to damages and corruption. Moreover, if you have access to an old Excel file, then you will face issues while opening it. Hence, you should make effective use of Stellar Repair for Excel, which is designed to repair Excel files automatically. You will be able to view the Excel file from within the dashboard. The product is lightweight and can be used even by people who don’t have any adequate experience. You can easily repair the damaged Excel file just by opening the file. The rest of the work will be carried out by the Stellar Repair for Excel. You will be able to view log report as well including the ability to save them as a separate file. The company provides excellent technical support. We highly recommend Stellar Repair for Excel for all your Excel file repair activities.

Stellar has gone one step ahead to help customers because of the lockdown period due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The company is offering remote data recovery services and hence you can recover data online. However, the service is available only for logical cases. The company provides fast, safe and convenient online data recovery service with 100 percent data confidentiality and data privacy. The expert team will help you to recover data online via a secured Internet connection. The whole process is divided into two stages such as Remote Analysis and Data Recovery. You can find more information pertaining to the remote data recovery services on the official dedicated page.