Solved: Data Disappears in Microsoft Excel Files

By Sophia | Last Updated January 03, 2024

After searching online, we find that some MS Excel users are bothered with the issue - Data disappears in the Excel spreadsheet. They reflect the issue with the question like "Excel file data lost after being saved". If you are one of these users, what can you do to recover your disappeared Excel file data at this time? Now, let's move on to get the answers.

When you find that your Excel spreadsheet data disappeared, you can firstly try several tricks here to troubleshoot it.

• 1. Exit the MS Excel program and re-open the spreadsheet whose data lost. This trick can get back the lost data for you sometimes.
• 2. Make sure that the font color is not the same as that of the cell, which makes the data visible.
• 3. Check whether the font is too large to show. If it is, just adjust its size to fit the cell size.
• 4. Ensure that you have not hidden the Row or Column data by accident.

If the tricks above cannot make the disappeared data show as normal, then don't hesitate to follow the ways below to fix the issue: Data disappears in the MS Excel spreadsheet.

• 1. Use Office Repair Function
• 2. Use Excel Recovery Tool

1. Use Office Repair Function

Step 1: Restart your Windows computer.

Step 2: Access Control Panel and click Uninstall a program option under Programs.

Step 3: Locate to Microsoft Office and right-click it to choose Change option.

Step 4: In the lower-right corner of the Microsoft window, hit Repair button to repair Office programs.

Step 5: Confirm your operation by clicking Repair button again.

Step 6: Close the "Done repairing" tips box. Then open the MS Excel file to see if the issue is fixed.

2. Use Excel Recovery Tool

Step 1: On your Windows PC, install iSunshare Excel Repair Genius, a reliable MS Excel recovery tool that can recover every object of the corrupted/damaged MS Excel XLSX file, including the disappeared data. And it will display the recovered file content for you in the form of a new healthy Excel file.

Step 2: Run the Excel recovery tool and click Open button to add the problematic .xlsx file.

Step 3: Select the .xlsx file and click Open button to finish adding the target spreadsheet.

Step 4: Click Restore button to start the file recovery operation.

Step 5: Save the recovered file to the desired place.

Step 6: Open the recovered spreadsheet and you will find that the lost data is back successfully.

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