OfficeRecovery Ultimate

Among others tasks it can perform, a computer is meant to provide stability and efficiency, but this doesn’t mean accidents can’t happen. Files can easily get lost by mistake, or even corrupted as a result of malicious program interventions. Luckily, developers came out with the means to recover and repair most file types out there, and is exactly what OfficeRecovery Ultimate helps you with.

As the name suggests, the application’s core function is to target Microsoft Office products in an attempt to repair and recover them. However, there is a bit more to it than meets the eye, and you can see this from the moment you try to launch the application. Truth is, there’s no actual main window to it all, and this is mostly a suite that bundles an impressive collection of recovery solutions.

For instance, running the desktop shortcut brings up a folder that lets you select the component you want. As such, recovery can be at least attempted for general deleted files, MediaHeal for CD and DVD, diskettes, flash, hard, and removable drives, picture recovery, access, word, excel, OneNote, Money, Outlook, PDF, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, QuickBooks, Windows Registries, WordPerfect, Works Database, Works Spreadsheet, Works Word, Writer, and Zip archives.

Most of them are fitted with a similar greeting page. It’s fitted with a short description of the tool and what you can accomplish, while also providing a simple menu to navigate through installed components, but also leaving the current one active. Processes themselves are also similar, with requirements that have you select the file to recover, whether or not to change its format, and location to save.

You might be wrong if considered the application is meant to recover deleted files and documents. There is such a component, but the general basic principle is to read corrupt files in an attempt to get them functional again, and change the output format if possible. Not a lot of experience is required to go through, thanks to the intuitive design and rich descriptions.

Bottom line is that OfficeRecovery Ultimate is a neat set of tools with which you’re sure to have a chance to fix accidents and not risk losing all your work. Although it feels a bit rough around the edges, processes are easy to grasp, take little time to finish, and chances of success are pretty favorable.