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Simple Ways to Immediately Recover a Deleted Sheet in Excel

If you accidentally delete an important sheet while working, how can you recover the deleted sheet in Excel? Let FPT Shop guide you through 4 simple ways to retrieve your worksheet!

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26 December, 2023

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Excel is one of the important and popular tools for data analysis that serves a variety of purposes in people’s daily work, from students and students to office workers. When performing operations in Excel, sometimes you accidentally delete an important sheet and you don’t know how to restore the deleted sheet in Excel to retrieve the data. FPT Shop can help you solve this problem with just a few simple steps. Let’s find out!

What is a Sheet in Excel?

A sheet in Excel is a worksheet, a working page of Excel. Sheets are used to manage data and perform data processing operations. The sheet interface consists of cells, divided by rows and columns.

A sheet in Excel is an intuitive interface for users to enter data, perform calculations, represent data, and create charts based on existing data. You can customize many different features on each sheet, such as formatting rows, columns, inserting images, inserting audio or video, entering formulas and functions for calculations…

Sheets in Excel also allow users to control data automation using features such as pivot tables, macros and other data tools.

Why is a sheet in Excel deleted?

One of the most common reasons for Excel sheets being lost is that users accidentally delete sheets without saving a backup or having a backup of that sheet.

In addition, some other reasons that can lead to Excel sheets being deleted are:

The Excel software is corrupt
When the computer encounters a sudden problem
Incorrect storage of sheets
Performing modifications to Excel files on incompatible software

When encountering this situation, don’t worry because you can still recover deleted sheets in Excel. However, the recovery of locked sheets sometimes cannot be 100% successful, as it depends on many factors that the data is lost. Therefore, to avoid situations where sheets are deleted in Excel leading to data loss, users should back up and create a backup regularly, especially when performing any important operations on the sheet.

How to recover deleted sheets in Excel

When you accidentally delete a sheet in Excel, you can refer to some of the following methods to restore your data:

Use the Undo command or the CTRL+Z shortcut

To recover a deleted sheet in Excel using the Undo or CTRL+Z function, you perform the following steps:

Open Excel and open the file containing the deleted sheet on your computer.
Left-click on the Undo button on the toolbar or use the CTRL+Z shortcut on your keyboard.

A list of previously performed operations on the sheet will appear. If you see that deleting the sheet is in that list, you can click on it to restore the deleted sheet in Excel.
Save the workbook immediately after you have successfully restored it to ensure that the file has been saved.

The Undo feature can only undo the most recently performed operations on the sheet. If you have saved the workbook or performed multiple other operations on the worksheet after accidentally deleting the sheet, then restoring the deleted sheet using this feature may not be successful.

Undo the file you just deleted the sheet on

If you have not succeeded with the above method, you can try to restore the deleted sheet by undoing the file. Restoring a deleted sheet in Excel by undoing the file you just deleted the sheet on can only be successful if you have just deleted the sheet and have not saved this Excel file. To restore a deleted sheet in Excel using this method, follow these steps:

Close the Excel file you are working on (the file that contains the deleted sheet) and choose “Don’t save”.

Access the folder containing the Excel file with the deleted sheet.
Right-click and choose Undo Delete or Restore previous versions, depending on the operating system you are using.
If you choose the Undo Delete command, the deleted sheet will be restored and located in its original position in the Excel file immediately. If you choose the Restore previous versions command, the system will display a list of previously stored versions of the Excel file. You can select the version that contains the deleted sheet and restore it.

After you have successfully restored the deleted sheet, save the Excel file and create a backup to ensure that the operations have been saved and prevent future losses.

Find a backup

Usually, while you are using Excel software, Excel usually has an automatic backup mode after a certain period of time and creates backups so that users can restore Excel files when needed. If you have previously created a backup or your Excel has an automatic backup feature, you can restore the deleted sheet in Excel by finding these backups. The steps are as follows:

On the main working screen of Excel, click on File on the toolbar. Select Options, then select Save.
In the AutoRecover file location section, you can see the paths to the folder where the backups are stored. Copy those paths.

Go back to the main screen of Excel, click on the File tab. Select Open in the menu that appears. Under the Recent section, a list of recently opened workbooks will appear. Click on Recover Unsaved Workbooks.

In the address bar of the window that appears, paste the copied paths and press Enter. After finding the folder where the backups are stored, you can open the Excel file containing the deleted sheet and find the sheet in the backups.
If the deleted sheet exists in the backups, right-click on the sheet in the backup, select Move or Copy, and select the current workbook to copy the found sheet into the Excel file.

Use the AbleBits Rescue Me package

AbleBits’ Rescue Me is a tool that helps you quickly and easily recover deleted sheets in Excel. The steps to use Rescue Me are as follows:

Download and install AbleBits’ Rescue Me. Open the Excel file containing the deleted sheet and open the installed Rescue Me tool.
Select Rescue Sheets, this is the command that helps retrieve deleted sheets. Select all the deleted sheets you want to recover, then click Rescue to continue the recovery process.
Wait for a while for the recovery process to complete. The deleted sheets will then be fully restored and displayed in the workbook.

Note that Rescue Me also has limitations and may not be able to recover all deleted sheets. Therefore, you should also consider before using this tool and it is best to still remember to back up before making any changes, especially significant changes.

Conclusion

Hopefully, the simple methods above will help you recover deleted sheets in Excel, help you use the features of Excel correctly and reasonably to avoid losing important data. One small note is that these methods may not be 100% successful, so you should always back up important files.

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