At times, while opening a workbook in Excel application (especially in MS Excel 2002) it may happen that you receive the following error message: 'Unable to read file.'
The above problem may occur if the different portions of the file structure get corrupt or damaged.
As the first instance of damage is encountered, open the Excel sheet in safe mode. It tries to repair the file. After repair, it checks for corruption left in the document, if any, and then makes an attempt to itself restart in a minimal-load mode. If the complete repair fails, Excel fails to restart and throws an error message.
The usual way to deal with such problems is to install the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. The other way to resolve this issue is to install a supported Hotfix offered by Microsoft. However, it may happen that even after installing the latest service pack and supported Hotfix, the issue still surfaces.
In such a situation try the efficient Excel recovery software by Stellar- Stellar Repair for Excel. This is one perfect tool to repair corrupt or damaged Excel files.
- You can first give a trial to its Demo version.
- Download and run its demo version.
- Select the damaged Excel file; you can also search the file if the location of the file is unknown.
- Click the Scan button.
- The software runs its scan algorithm and repairs the damaged occurred.
- After the repair, you can also have the preview of the recovered file. This shows that the file is now repaired.
Try its demo version first, and if you are satisfied with the output, go for the full version to repair the file and save the final recovered data.
The software recovers all Excel objects, such as formulas, chart series, clip-arts, cell-comments, etc. Its interactive user interface, make this tool easy to handle. One great thing about this tool is that it performs the repair without any changes or alterations in the original data of the Excel file.
