Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet application, developed and marketed by Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. Excel For Mac, is a part of Microsoft Office for Mac. Likewise, Microsoft Excel 2008, is also a part of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which stores spreadsheets with XLSX extension. To keep these critical files safe, you should regularly back them up. Taking backup is about creating an identical copy of your precious data, which helps you to prevent data loss situations and avoid need of Mac Data Recovery options.

The most common reason of losing XLSX files from your Mac computer is hard drive formatting. Formatting removes all the files, directories, volumes, operating system, and installed applications from the hard drive and make the drive completely empty. In such situations, you lose all your XLSX files, if you do not have an updated backup. Though formatting is frustrating at times (since it calls for creating, maintaining and updating backups), it is inevitable. You may need to format a Macintosh hard drive for any of the following purposes:

• To get rid of a deadly virus, which can not be removed using an anti-virus software.

• Replace damaged file system or hard drive data structures.

• Reinstall operating system to fix boot errors or restore missing system files.

• Remove all the files and folders from hard drive.

Although, hard drive formatting removes all the content of the drive, all of that content is still recoverable. It is possible to recover lost XLSX and other files after formatting a hard drive.

Disk formatting doesn’t remove the files, until they are overwritten by other files. Hard drive maintains an index file, which tells the operating system where a particular file is stored. When you format the hard drive, links between index and file are deleted. The file remains physically intact and can be recovered using Mac Recovery.

You can perform File Recovery Mac in a perfect and quick way using advanced third-party recovery applications, known as Mac Recovery Software. The applications are powerful enough to carry out thorough scan of whole Mac hard drive and extract lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They are incorporated with simple graphical user interface and read-only conduct to offer easy and safe recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the most prominent tool that is used to ensure absolute recovery of your valuable data. The software supports Mac Recovery from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volume of Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4, and 10.3.9 operating systems. It recovers all types of lost files, including XLSX files, multimedia files, documents, and more.