Summary: Did you know you could easily recover deleted Office for Mac files such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel on your own?
Yes, data recovery from Mac is possible if you have the right tool. Download a free trial of the Stellar Data Recovery tool for Mac and get back your deleted Office for Mac files.
‘A few days ago I deleted some files from my MacBook Pro. Now I need those Office for Mac files again for some work. How can I recover deleted Office files on Mac?’
Deletion doesn’t always imply that you have lost your Office documents on Mac. They can still be traced in your Trash folder on Mac. Even if you have emptied Trash or can’t find the files in the folder, Time Machine backup comes as a saviour.
Office files deleted from Trash and not available in Time Machine would require a file recovery software. Check for the best Mac file recovery software here.
How to Recover Office for Mac Files?
Office for Mac files — PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets or Word are often important documents which you can’t afford to lose.
What you should do, first:
- Look into your Trash folder on Mac and ‘put back’ from there OR
- Find and restore from your Time Machine backup
Permanently deleted Office for Mac files?
‘I made a big blunder. I forgot to take the backup of an important folder, which had all the Microsoft Office files, before resetting my iMac running on macOS Big Sur 11 or Catalina 10.15. Is there a way I can recover the Office PPT, Excel and Word files on Mac after a factory reset?’
Situations like above or when Office for Mac files are deleted from Trash as well entail a permanent loss of Mac Office files.
Such permanently deleted files from Mac are recovered by using an efficient Office file recovery software— Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac. You can easily restore your PowerPoint, Word, Excel files from the deleted hard drive partition, volume, Time Machine, encrypted start-up disk, and external Mac drive.
Stellar Data Recovery for Mac restores Office for Mac files, irrespective of the cause of files loss – deletion, formatted, bad sectors, macOS crash, inaccessible drives, and others.
Even in tough data loss situations, like reset of Mac to factory settings, when all the installed applications including Microsoft Office for Mac are erased from the system, the software facilitates Office files recovery.
The software scans the drive, lets you preview the Office files, and then saves them at the desired location.
It supports the recovery of all the versions of Office for Mac including the latest Office 2019 and Office 365.
Monitor your Mac Drive’s Health & prevent data loss
Use the Monitor Drive function of Stellar Data Recovery Professional to get real-time report of your Mac drive’s health. With timely diagnosis, you can avoid the damage that could lead to data loss.
The software shares the performance and SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) status of your Mac volume, external drive, or partition, and alerts you in case of bad sectors or failing drive. You can create the disk clone to avoid permanent data loss situation and facilitate recovery from it.
Step-by-step: Recover Deleted Microsoft Office files on Mac
- Install the trial* version of Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac
- Select Documents and e-mails
- Go to the Settings icon on top. Under Document formats, select the file types you want to recover like .ppt, .doc, or .xls. (This step is recommended to recover exactly what you want and reduce the recovery time.)
- Select the drive from which you want to recover deleted Office files
- Toggle Deep Scan and click Scan to begin scanning
- Preview the found Office files after scanning completes. Click Recover
- Activation key dialog box appears. If you don’t have the key, click Get it now
- Activate the software and Save the Office for Mac files at your desired location
*The trial software scans the drive and shows the preview of all the recoverable files. Once you are able to ascertain the effectiveness, you can save the recoverable files by activating the software.
Watch the video to know how to recover lost or deleted Office for Mac files
Conclusion
Professional software for Office for Mac files recovery can get back your lost or permanently deleted PowerPoint, Word and Excel files on macOS in any data loss situation.
Software such as Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac safely restores Office files of any format from Mac drives and media. It recovers the latest Office 2019 and Office 365 as well. Further, you get back the lost Office files with their original name and date timestamp, which make it easy to find your required data.
Hello, I did a foolish thing and tried to update the Microsoft office applications on my Mac that came with the computer when I originally bought it in 2015. I don’t remember ever having a product key for Microsoft office but when I “updated” it, it had me permanently delete my old Microsoft office apps that were originally installed on my brand new computer in 2015. I downloaded the new Microsoft Office 365 but it is relegating me to view only access unless I activate Office. Can this Stellar Data Recovery tool recover all my original Microsoft Office apps so that I can have full access again?
Hi Adaeze, you can try Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac. It can help you to recover exe files, apk files, or some other file types efficiently. If you see the program files in the preview, you can recover them easily. Thanks.
Hello, I closed my doc and chose the option not to save by mistake, now I can’t undo it and recovery my work, any help pleaseeeee
Hi,
You may check the last saved data. Here is the path Open “Finder” on your Mac, then head to “Go” > “Go to Folder”.
Type: ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery and click “Go
Thanks
I accidentally erased all my dad’s stuff while searching for a way to transfer data from mac to hard drive, and I’ve scanned but no data found. 🙁
Hello Denver,
You should use the option of a deep scan. It will take the time, but it will scan every single sector of the hard drive. The result you will find your deleted data efficiently, In case of no overwritten data.
Accidentally erased an external USB hard drive that had over one-hundred Office for Mac 2016 excel files and few other word docs. Unfortunately, I erased the USB drive twice; once with HFS and later HFS encrypted. How may I still recover the Office for Mac excel files in perfect running state?
You never know whether the file is truly overwritten, internally it could be possible that the data is written to another space and the original space is marked as deleted. In this case, the files are recoverable by data recovery program. So the best way is to try Stellar Mac Data Recovery software to see whether files are recoverable.
I am being asked to install valid MS Excel 2008 or 2011. I have Office for Mac 2011 ? why?
Hi Mike,
Please mention about file extension of Excel File.
Hi Editor,
My Mac Mini hard drive has starts failing from last few days, and now I have lost access to all the files stored into it. In addition, I do not have too much money to take the help of a data recovery companies (as they charged more). I want to recover my data at any cost with less budget. Do you know any data recovery software that can helps me to recover my data back?
Do you have Time Machine backup available, then you can easily restore it and access all the lost files and folders.
However, if you do not have any Mac hard drive backup available, then without the help of a Mac data recovery software, it is not possible to recovers it. If you have a budget near about $100, then Stellar Data Recovery for Mac is the best available solution. This professional macOS data recovery software recovers the data from a failing hard drive.
Hi Editor, I have lost some of most important office files that is stored with file extension:”.XLS File”. Is it possible to recovers the deleted .XLS files?
Yes, Stellar Data Recovery for Mac can perform deleted or lost .XLS file using its in-built scanning engine. This Mac data recovery software treats .XLS file similar to any other file and recovers it within minutes. Along with providing deleted .XLS files recovery, you can also use the additional features of this data recovery software, i.e. Time Machine recovery, RAW recovery, Encrypted drive recovery, Optical media drive recovery. Software Pages: https://www.stellarinfo.com/data-recovery-mac.php
Can your software recover Office 2016 deleted workbooks of size larger than 10MB? I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 and in desperation.
Hello Brandy,
Yes the software will recover your deleted office files. You should avail the free evaluation of the Stellar Mac Data Recovery utility. Thanks!!!!!
Recently, I deleted one of my excel document from Mavericks version of Mac OS X. Please tell me which software should I use to recover it?
You need to scan the hard drive with Stellar Data Recovery for Mac for recovering your deleted excel files. Do give it a try.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for using the tool.