Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

It would be better, if the software gives a hint NOT to install on the disk, where you want to search for deleted documents.

A Canadian company with address.

This software is named "Office Recovery Wizard Standard", but I cannot find a "professional" or "advanced" or whatsoever other edition.

Upon start a resizable window opens. You can select logical and physical drives, so it recognizes TrueCrypt containers, too.

An info : installed Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or StarOffice NOT REQUIRED

The program works quite slow, and... WOW!

The preview window is excellent. It shows the files, which have been found, the file info and content and you can filter the search - restrict only to (really) deleted files, text&title&author, date modified, file size and so on.

This makes a professional impression. Among the many recovery programs the best, I can remember - focused on Office documents.

I will keep this, maybe I can use it in the future. Up to now, I have never had the need of a recovery software. My backup system works as it should.

Thanks GAOTD and Wizardrecovery!

Karl  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+79)

Traduci

I tested this GOTD in a partition where, in a particular folder, I have more than 1250 XLS files... Needless to say scanning took forever, I had to kill the software not only because the counter was only at 347 after 5 mn (and CPU load at 100%) and the cancel button wasn't very responsive, but mainly because of the flaws #1, #2 and #3 below.

I'm talking only about Excel because I don't use Microsoft Office for other documents any longer.

Main flaws:

1. Cannot filter files before searching: filters apply only after all files (any kind, lost or not) are found
2. Cannot select a folder, only a partition/disk
3. Preview files while scanning
4. In some circumstances, heavy CPU load + does not work in the background so you can't do other thing
5. As it exists a "Preview" button, there should exist a toggle button to choose between "Auto Preview" and "Summary information" instead of going to Settings to switch between the two views.

Minor defects:
6. There could be a "Select all" or "Uncheck all" in filters
7. The file list on the left is badly designed: icons too big, file names wrapped, useless information (or cannot select which one to show, e.g. no dates (size isn't the most relevant information, neither the author)
8. Help (F1) not working

All in all, not a bad software. The way it works, you can use it as an "explorer" for office files. Of course, for this to work flawlessly, issues #1 to #3, and #5 should be solved.

Now, two questions remain without answers:

i) Would this software recover an XLS file lost because of an Excel crash? (That's very different from a deleted file.)

ii) Would this software recover a corrupted Excel file? (Especially the kind that makes Excel crash when opening it.)

Meanwhile, this GOTD is somewhat useful. But in its current state, I don't feel it's worth the high tag price.

papin  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+55)

Traduci

I have remarked, that Karl is trying the giveaways out very fast and every day. Thanks for sharing your opinion with us.
I hope, it's okay to say big thanks to Giovanni as well for his "storage" of freeware.
Thanks to giveawayoftheday for keeping the site alive. Unfortunately, I can't use today's offer, but it can't be jackpot every and each time. Greets to all friendly people here - from Denmark.

Allan  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+54)

Traduci

How to recover Office documents

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/software/3473951/how-recover-office-documents/

Andrea  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+20)

Traduci

Also crashed for me on the first run. I terminated it with task manager and then opened it again in which the registration box came up. I registered and then had to close it and reopen it again to show the registered version. ran a scan on a small drive and partition that I have and it found 700 files that are recoverable. I previewed a few of them and could not believe it some were from 2007. it did take approximately 15 minutes but if your trying to recover something time is not important in my view. in my opinion this is a keeper for backup recovery.
Did this on an XP sp3 system

Freeware Junkie  –  11 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+20)

Traduci