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Recover virus infected excel files

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Virus attack is the major reason behind many issues and errors faced by users. It can affect anything that is on your system, and it has various ways to reach your system and data. It becomes very crucial to recover virus infected data as soon as it happens, under the guidance of a professional. Now, we are going to see how you can recover a virus-infected Excel workbook. Just in case these methods fail, you can try a trustworthy automated tool to recover the data. Let’s move forward and know about those methods.

Recover excel file with the following methods

It is always easy to solve an error if you know what caused it. Here we have a clear case of virus-infected Excel file. So, let’s discuss how you can cure a virus-infected file with different methods:

  1. Install the software correctly and run it. Once the tool is open, select a recovery mode from Single or Multiple recovery modes of the tool. Now, click the Browse button to select the infected XLS/XLSX file from your system, USB, Flash Drive, etc.
  2. After selecting the infected file, click on the Repair button to proceed further.
  3. Let the repair process finish or click on Stop if you want to go back and make changes.
  4. At this stage, you can have the preview of the repaired Excel file. Have a look and click on Save once satisfied.
  5. Click on the Select Path to save the file at the desired location. Once selected, click on the Save button.
  6. The tool will start saving the file at the designated place. If you need to go back, click on Stop.
  7. Once the tool is done with saving, it will display the location of the saved files.

After following all the steps successfully, one can achieve a healthy Excel file. As the tool repairs the infected file, you will see that your file is repaired with all its data like charts, tables, formulas, etc.

Conclusion:

In this blog, we have seen various methods to recover a virus-infected Excel Workbook. In the end, we have discussed about Kernel for Excel Repair, to recover the same. The tool is very reliable and ensures the full recovery of an infected file.