Prologue

Yesterday, I have carelessly deleted an excel file which is an excel file of version 2010, the excel file is very important for me, I must get the deleted excel file back. So, I have searched a large number of resources about how to recover deleted excel file 2010 on Internet and study these resources. I tried my best, in the end, I have got the lost deleted excel file back. Here, I write the experience about how did I recover my deleted excel file 2010 to help anyone who share the same fate. Ok, let us follow below steps to recover our deleted excel file 2010.

Knowlege About Microsoft Excel File

The full name of Excel is Microsoft Office Excel, it is a commercial spreadsheet application designed by Microsoft for Windows and other operation system. It features graphing tools, pivot tables and calculation, etc. Excel has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for Windows platforms and other operation system. Excel is a part of Microsoft Office software. After read the article you can easily recover deleted excel files of Microsoft Excel 97(xls), Microsoft Excel 2000(xls), Microsoft Excel 2003(xls), Microsoft Excel 2007(xlsx) and Microsoft Excel 2010.

Find The Deleted Excel File 2010 In The Recycle Bin

If you just deleted an excel file by Windows Explorer and you want to get it back, then you are fortunate, because your deleted excel file is still existing fully in your computer. Follow below steps you can easily recover it.
First, find the icon of the Recycle Bin on desktop of Windows, and open it by click on the icon.
Next, search the deleted file in the Recycle Bin.
Finally, after you find the deleted file, you just need to right-click on the file to pop up system menu and click 'Restore' menu item, you can get the lost file back in the place where it original located.

Recover Deleted Excel File 2010 After Emptied The Recycle Bin

After deleted the excel file, you had emptied the Recycle Bin, you are unfortunate. In this situation, you should wonder if you can get it back. The answer is 'yes',  you still have a chance to recover the deleted excel file even after you emptied the Recycle Bin. In fact, after you delete an excel file from the computer and empty it from the Recycle Bin, it's data would disappear from your hard disk. When you empty an excel file from the Recycle Bin, Windows just marks it for deletion and removes it from the file system database, and the space occpied by the excel file is listed as available space for saving new files. So until some new files are written to the part of the hard disk partition where that the old execel file located, the excel file is still there and you can recover it. But Windows do not offer the function, so you need a third-part software to do the thing.

After overall testing, I have found File Recovery Assist is an excellent file recovery software, it can help you to easily recover your deleted excel file. Ok, you can read follows to learn how to recover your deleted excel file.

First, download File Recovery Assist from here, and follow the wizard of installation to install it.

Second,select a disk partition where the deleted excel file located and click 'Next' button, the software will scan the disk partition to find any deleted files and list these deleted files.

Finally, after the sofware list deleted files, you can find the file which you want to recover in the deleted files list. You can double it to preview the content of the file or click 'NEXT' button to recover it to the position of your setting.


As I said, all things are click 'NEXT' button, you can easily recover your deleted excel file, even after you emptied the Recycle Bin. So you should free download it to try.