MS excel is a spreadsheet program which is available in a bundled form in MS office suite. It offers powerful features such as calculation, support for macro programming, pivot tables and graphic tools. Excel is a very powerful tool which is used in almost every field. But, sometimes you may get encountered with errors while working in MS excel. One of the most obvious causes of such abrupt behavior is file corruption.

          

Sometimes it happens that whenever you try to open the excel files, it does not give the output as expected and gives an error message: “Unable to read file” error in excel. Such problems can occur if the file is in earlier version of MS excel and you are making attempts to open it in a later version. As a result the application fails to read the Excel files and sometimes may result in severe loss of file objects like drawings, charts and images. You can resolve the aforesaid error if you open the file by using ‘Open and Repair’ feature.

If you have a valid backup available, you can restore files from there. But in case if you do not have any backup available you can take the help of third-party excel repair tools for repairing the files completely and restoring it. Third party tools are made in such a way that you can easily repair the excel files and recover your lost files without any difficulty. Stellar phoenix excel recovery software is a highly advanced and one of the finest XLS repair utility which are especially designed to scan and repair the corrupt excel files with read-only and rich interface. This tool supports almost all versions of Excel like 2007, 2002, 2003 and 2007. It easily resolves unable to read file error in excel and has the capacity to restore almost all file objects. It is efficient, safe and provides complete recovery of excel files. This software is compatible with Windows 2000, NT, Vista, 2003 and XP.