Excel Recovery Toolbox 1.4

Applications are great because they allow you to be more productive. With an application such as the Microsoft-developed Excel you can easily create very complex reports. But applications can also prove to be annoying when they refuse to work properly. Like when the report you created with Excel refuses to open because it has been corrupted.

When such a thing happens, there is only one thing you can do: find another software application that will help you repair or recover data from your corrupted excel file. Such an application is the Recovery Tools-developed, the aptly named Excel Recovery Toolbox (or Recovery Toolbox for Excel).

What can this application do? Well, it scans the corrupted Excel file and extracts as much information from it as it possibly can. Then it presents the user with the information it extracted. The user can then export that data to another Excel file. Basically Excel Recovery Toolbox takes a corrupted Excel file, extracts as much information as possible from it, then exports it to a fresh Excel file.

To better put things in perspective, here is the functionality you can expect to get from Excel Recovery Toolbox:

• Recover style of table
• Recover number formats (except colors, used in a number format)
• Recover fonts
• Recover worksheets
• Recover columns width and rows height
• Recover cell data of workbook
• Recover all types of formula including functions, internal, external and name references
• Recover cells format (font, number format, line style, fill pattern, text orientation and alignment)
• Recover colors of cells
• Recover colors of cell's borders

And here are the bits the application cannot do:

• Repair pint settings
• Repair conditional formatting
• Repair data validity
• Repair range, worksheet and workbook protection
• Repair Asian phonetic blocks
• Repair hyperlinks
• Repair calculation settings
• Repair sorting settings
• Repair any objects, such as pictures, diagrams, notes and other
• Repair merged cells
• Repair comments
• Recover VBA macros

Should you decide to get Excel Recovery Toolbox, it may prove worthwhile to take a look at these technical details:
Download – the download weighs in at less than 1MB, which means it will complete in no time at all.
Install – at the time of writing this and according to the application’s developer Excel Recovery Toolbox provides support for Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista. The application also provides support for Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010.
Limitations – the trial version does not allow you to export recovered data.

Pros

• Lightweight download
• Easy to use
• Works with Excel 2010

Cons

• Free to try

Details about software developer Recovery Toolbox are available here.
Additional details about Excel Recovery Toolbox are available here.

Excel Recovery Toolbox has been reviewed by George Norman on 14 Sep 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Excel Recovery Toolbox 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent