How to Recover Excel Files from Recycle Bin?

Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application and it features pivot tables, calculation, graphing tools, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. You can keep your every day work assignments or any other related data on it. Loosing these files cause a lot of problems, like any other file, excel files can also be lost due to various reasons. You can recover excel file from Recycle Bin if the files are lost from the Recycle Bin or if you have accidentally deleted the excel file, the file is corrupted or damaged can be recovered.You can also restore files which bypass Windows Recycle Bin folder by using this software.

Files can be lost due to following reasons:

Files bypassing the Recycle Bin:

If the files exceeding in size more than that of the Recycle Bin are deleted, then the files bypass the Recycle Bin and will be deleted permanently.
If the Recycle Bin has already reached its maximum size limit and if you are deleting any new file, it will bypass the Recycle Bin.
You might have deleted files from the Recycle Bin by selecting Empty Recycle Bin option, this clears off all the files from the Recycle Bin.

Other reasons for loss of excel files:

Files might have been deleted by using shift+delete keys
While using cut and paste command on Windows
You might have accidentally deleted it thinking it is some other file
Using third party applications or software, it might have corrupted the file or deleted it
Due to virus files might be inaccessible
By formatting drive, the files will be lost
Due to power surge or Improper system shut down
Interrupted file download leads to inaccessibility of the excel file

NOTE: Do not create or copy any files to the System from where you have deleted or lost the files, this might result in permanent data loss. Keep a backup of all the files so that you can use those backup files when the original files are lost.

You can restore Recycle Bin files on Windows Operating System like Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. This software is also available in a demo version; you can search for the lost, deleted, corrupted, or damaged excel files and retrieve them. In the trial version you can only scan for the files and preview them but will not be able to save them, instead you can save the scanned information i.e. how many files are found and can be recovered. Demo version is similar to that of the activated version, except that the saving recovered data is disabled. When you are satisfied you can purchase this tool, and here the saving recovered data is enabled. Once the software is purchased can be used as many times you want, and no further charges applied. You can also use the saved scanned information so that you can avoid re scanning. The software also lets you to restore deleted folders from Recycle Bin.

Follow these steps to recover files from Recycle Bin:

Step 1: Download and install the software, when it is launched you get a main screen from which select "RECOVER FILES" option.

Main Screen

Step 2: Click "RECOVER DELETED FILES" option to retrieve files from Recycle bin..

Recover Excel File from Recycle Bin Select Recover Deleted Files

Select Recovery Option

Step 3: Select the drive from which you have lost your file and then select "Next" as shown in the image.

Recover Excel File from Recycle Bin - Select Drive / Partition

Select Drive

Step 4: Once the scanning is finished, you can view the recovered data both in "Data View / File Type View" option which is on the top-left of the screen.

Recover Excel File from Recycle Bin - Recovered Files

View Files

Note: Save the recovered data to another drive / partition or to any CD/DVD. Never download or store new data to the drive from where you want to recover the deleted data.