S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Excel Files

                   *****S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Excel 4.0.0*****

Note, some of the buttons won't work if there are invisible or visible Excel instances running in task manager. Before starting this program, hit Ctl-Alt-Delete start Task Manager and end all instances of Excel. Look for EXCEL.EXE or EXCEL.EXE * 32 (the latter will only appear if you have a 64 bit version of WIndows installed and a 32 bit version of Microsoft Office).

S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Excel is a program that tries to make easy, Microsoft's methods for recovering from Excel corruption. With the exception of the revert to last saved methods, it implements in one place all the suggestions for Excel recovery laid out by Microsoft at these locations: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/repairing-corrupted-files-in-excel-HA001034656.aspx and http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/repairing-a-corrupted-workbook-HA010097017.aspx.

The program adds five non-MS methods for recovering data from corrupt workbooks that won't open. These are the "Non-MS Extract I", "Non-MS Extract II-XLSX Only", "Zip Repair-Try for XLS & XLSX", "Full Repair I XLSX Only" and "Full Repair II XLSX Only" methods. The first three use included freeware or open source executables from other projects to do their work, specifically the SILVERCODERS DocToText, No-Frills Unzipper, CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2txt and Info-Zip projects. SILVERCODERS DocToText are available as open source on Sourceforge, http://sourceforge.net/, whereas the other two are available on my website: http://godskingsandheroes.info/software/.

There are earlier version of the program available if you contact me at socrtwo@s2services.com.

This program requires the installation of the .NET 2.0 framework. Hopefully most Windows machines have at least installed this version by now. Additionally, most of the functions require at least Excel 2003 to be installed on the machine. Please send me your reports of bugs to socrtwo@s2services.com.

For any suggestions and free support please Email me at socrtwo@s2services.com. I also try manual spreadsheet recovery for $22 but charge only for success, I'll return $17 if I'm unsuccessful keeping $5 for the analysis fee. - 07/16/2013 Paul Pruitt

                                ****Changes to 4.0****

1. Added the Extract Data From Chart data recovery method.
2. Added the Full Repair I XLSX Only and Full Repair II XLSX Only methods which work by repairing XML subfiles in the XLSX only workbooks.
3. Added a link to the freeware Microsoft Office doc file parsing tool, OffVis, for XLS files only.
4. Added a link to the freeware XLStylesTool, by XLGeek.
5. Removed a link to Kernel Excel Recovery.
6. Removed a link to opening the file in WordPad.
7. Now digitally signing the setup and uninstall files.

                                ****Changes to 3.1.3****

1. Made some cosmetic changes. Made the program file window smaller. Rearranged the shortcut buttons into three rows instead of two. Made the shortcut buttons biggger and more attractive.

                                ****Changes to 3.1.2****

1. Fixed Inno Installer showing Chinese characters during install because of using the inno installer for Unicode.
2. Created a "Resources" folder during install and routed the Resource files into the folder.

                                ****Changes to 3.1.1****

1. The free repair coupon from Online File Recovery service of Recoveronix has been extended to May 1, 2013. Added verbiage to that effect for that button along with instructions on how to enter in the coupon.
                                 
                                 ****Changes to 3.1****

1. Added shortcuts to the best commercial Excel Recovery software and online services.