DataNumen Office Repair: Five Office Recovery Tools in One Windows Program
DataNumen Office Repair is a $499.95 Windows suite that bundles DataNumen's Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word repair tools, so one license covers corrupt MDB/ACCDB databases, XLS/XLSX workbooks, PST/OST mailboxes, PPTX presentations and DOC/DOCX documents. It's meant for IT staff and small offices that deal with damaged Office files of every kind, rather than one bad file.
If you only have one broken workbook, this is the wrong purchase: the single tool costs a fraction of the suite. The suite makes sense when the next corrupt file could be a mailbox one week and a database the next.
Quick facts
- Version: 6.0, released January 21, 2024
- Developer: DataNumen, Inc. (the suite was sold as Advanced Office Repair for many years)
- Platform: Windows, 32-bit installer
- Included tools: DataNumen Access Repair, Excel Repair, Outlook Repair, PowerPoint Recovery and Word Repair
- Files: MDB, ACCDB, XLS, XLW, XLSX, XLSM, PST, OST, PPTX, DOC and DOCX
- Price: $499.95 for one user, one-time, with no auto-renewal on the order page
- Trial: free demo that tells you whether a file can be recovered, but doesn't write the full fixed file
- Guarantee: 30 days
- What we checked: installer file version 6.00 (61.98 MB, digitally signed by DataNumen, Inc.) downloaded from the vendor, with a January 21, 2024 file date; the $499.95 order page price. We didn't run a repair on damaged files. Checked on November 8, 2026.
Before you buy
- Count the file types you need. Bought separately, the five tools cost $669.75 at their current order-page prices (Access Repair $199.95, Outlook Repair $199.95, and Excel Repair, Word Repair and PowerPoint Recovery $89.95 each). If you only need one or two of them, buy those instead.
- Some tools need their Office program. DataNumen's Excel Repair, Word Repair and PowerPoint Recovery use Excel, Word or PowerPoint on the same PC during the repair. Access Repair doesn't need Access.
- PowerPoint means PPTX only. Old PPT presentations from PowerPoint 97-2003 aren't supported.
- Upgrades and support run for one month. After that you need the Annual Support and Maintenance Plan or a paid upgrade.
- A refund needs a reason. The 30-day guarantee covers you, but you must explain why in detail, and DataNumen may ask for the original corrupt file to verify it. The company offers to sign an NDA where needed.
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Overview
Open the suite and you get a launcher with six large buttons: one for each recovery tool and one for the help files. Each button starts the same program DataNumen sells on its own, so the repair engine, options and batch mode are the ones in the separate products. Every tool writes what it recovers to a new file and leaves the damaged original alone.
The Repair tab of the version 6.0 demo: one button per recovery tool, plus Help Documentations.
Features
Access databases: tables, records, queries and relationships
DataNumen Office Repair's Access tool rebuilds MDB and ACCDB databases from Access 95 to 2021 and Microsoft 365. It recovers tables, records, queries, indexes and relationships, brings back deleted tables and records, and handles password-protected databases.
Excel workbooks: cells, formulas and formats
DataNumen Office Repair's Excel tool fixes XLS, XLW, XLSX and XLSM files from Excel 3.0 to 2021 and Microsoft 365. It recovers worksheets, cells, formulas (including shared and array-entered ones), standard and custom formats, and worksheet names.
Outlook mailboxes: PST and OST files
DataNumen Office Repair's Outlook tool scans PST and OST files from Outlook 97 to 2021 and Microsoft 365 and recovers emails, attachments, folders, calendar items, contacts, tasks, journals and notes, including deleted items. It copes with password-protected and oversized files, can split the output into smaller PST files, and can recover from disk images and temporary files.
PowerPoint presentations: slides, masters and media
DataNumen Office Repair's PowerPoint tool recovers PPTX presentations from PowerPoint 2007 to 2021 and Microsoft 365: slide masters, layouts, slides, notes, handout masters and themes, plus pictures, 3D models, video and audio.
Word documents: text, formatting and tables
DataNumen Office Repair's Word tool repairs DOC and DOCX files from Word 6.0 to 2021 and Microsoft 365. It recovers text, images, fonts, layouts, formatting, tables, bulleted and numbered lists, hyperlinks and bookmarks, and can recover from Word's temporary files.
Automatic updates
DataNumen Office Repair has a single option on its Options tab: check for and apply product updates automatically. Each tool keeps its own repair options inside its own window.
The suite's Options tab, with the "Auto check and apply product updates" switch.
Benefits
- One purchase for the whole office. The help desk doesn't need to buy a new tool each time a different file type breaks.
- About $170 less than the five tools bought one by one. The saving only counts if you'd really use most of them.
- Low-risk testing. The demo shows whether a file is recoverable before anyone pays, and the repair never touches the original.
Real-World Uses
- An IT help desk. One week it's a 20 GB PST that Outlook refuses to open, the next a shared Access database that broke during a network drop.
- A consultant on call for small offices. Carry one installer that covers whatever Office file a client brings.
- After a failed disk. A recovered folder holds damaged Word, Excel and PowerPoint files together. Each tool has a batch mode for its own file type.
- A finance team on an old Access front end. Recover the tables and queries, then the workbooks the reports were exported to.
Who It's For, and Who Should Skip It
It suits IT departments, managed service providers and anyone who supports many Office users on Windows and expects to see several kinds of corrupt files over the year.
Skip it if you have one damaged file of one type: DataNumen Excel Repair, Word Repair or PowerPoint Recovery costs $89.95 on its own. Skip it if your problem is an Outlook OST you just need converted, or a SQL Server or DBF database, which the suite doesn't cover. Mac users need a Windows PC to run it, although the tools accept files made on a Mac.
Usage Guide
- Download and install the demo, then close Office programs that could have the damaged file open.
- Start DataNumen Office Repair and click the button for the file type: Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint or Word.
- In that tool, pick the damaged file. The output name is filled in for you, next to the original.
- Start the repair and wait for the progress bar to finish.
- Read the demo result. If your data shows up as recoverable, order the full version and run the same repair again to get the complete fixed file.
- Open the fixed file in its Office program and check it before you delete anything.
Where it falls short
- The suite lags its parts. Office Repair 6.0 dates from January 2024, while DataNumen released Outlook Repair 10.2 on its own in April 2025, so check with the vendor which tool versions the suite installs.
- Not every file can be saved. Softpedia's editor found the suite efficient but noted that it can't perform miracles: some files are simply beyond repair.
- It can feel slow. The same review found the response time sometimes left something to be desired, and a big mailbox or database takes time to scan.
- Few independent reviews. Most published praise is on DataNumen's own site, including its recovery-rate claims.
What Users Say
Independent feedback on the suite itself is thin, and we didn't find enough user reviews of it to quote. Here is what we could confirm, with its source.
Softpedia
Softpedia's editorial review of DataNumen Office Repair (under its old name, Advanced Office Repair) calls it a pretty efficient piece of software with an intuitive interface, and reports no errors, hangs or crashes in testing. The reviewer's two cautions: some files are beyond repair, and the response time is sometimes slow. The page's user rating is based on only two votes, so we don't give it weight. We read the review through a summarizer, as the site blocks direct access.
DataNumen's own figures
The product page shows 4.90 out of 5 from 1,652 votes, a count the vendor collects itself. DataNumen also publishes a case study in which Qualcomm's IT department rolled the suite out in phases to deal with corrupt Office files across departments. Both come from the vendor, so treat them as marketing rather than independent testing.
Reviews of the individual tools
The suite runs the same programs DataNumen sells separately, so reviews of those apply here. Customers quoted on the Excel Repair page describe getting their data back from workbooks Excel couldn't open, with one reporting that formatting and about half the cross-sheet formulas were lost on a badly damaged file. Outlook Repair testimonials praise its results on large PST files that scanpst.exe could not fix, but also mention scans that run for hours, and in one forensic case for days.
The pattern: the tools are simple to run and often get the data back, but a badly damaged file comes back as data rather than a perfect copy, and the evidence is mostly the vendor's own.
Comparisons
DataNumen Office Repair vs. buying the tools separately
The five tools cost $669.75 together when bought one at a time, against $499.95 for the suite. If you need the Outlook and Access tools ($199.95 each), the suite costs only about $100 more and adds Excel, Word and PowerPoint repair. If you need just one of the $89.95 tools, the suite is more than five times the price.
DataNumen Office Repair vs. Office's built-in repair
Word, Excel and PowerPoint have a free Open and Repair option in the Open dialog, and Outlook ships with the Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe). Try those first. The suite is for files they can't fix, and for Access databases that Compact and Repair can't open.
Editions and Pricing
There's one edition. Volume licenses are cheaper per user, as listed on DataNumen's order page:
| User licenses | Price per license (US$) |
|---|
| 1 | 499.95 |
| 2 - 9 | 379.95 |
| 10 - 24 | 299.95 |
| 25 - 49 | 239.95 |
| 50 - 99 | 169.95 |
| 100 - 199 | 119.95 |
| 200 - 499 | 99.95 |
| 500+ | 69.95 |
FAQs
Does DataNumen Office Repair include DataNumen Outlook Repair's OST support?
Yes. DataNumen Office Repair's Outlook tool lists both PST and OST among its supported file types, and it saves what it recovers as a new PST file.
Can DataNumen Office Repair fix old PowerPoint PPT files?
No. DataNumen Office Repair's PowerPoint tool handles PPTX files from PowerPoint 2007 and later only. Old PPT files aren't supported.
Is DataNumen Office Repair a subscription?
No. DataNumen Office Repair is a one-time purchase. Free upgrades and support last one month, and after that you can buy the Annual Support and Maintenance Plan or pay for an upgrade when you want one.
Does DataNumen Office Repair work on a Mac?
DataNumen Office Repair runs on Windows only. To repair a file from a Mac, copy it to a Windows PC, repair it there and copy the fixed file back.
How soon do I get the full version after ordering DataNumen Office Repair?
DataNumen says you get an order confirmation email, then a second email with the link to the full version within about 15 minutes.
Can I repair many files at once with DataNumen Office Repair?
Each tool in DataNumen Office Repair has its own batch mode, so you can queue many files of the same type. You can't mix file types in one batch, because each type goes through its own tool.
System Requirements
- Windows
- Intel or equivalent processor, x86 or x64
- 64 MB of memory minimum, 4 GB recommended
- 139 MB of disk space
- Excel, Word or PowerPoint installed to repair files of that type
Conclusion
Worth $499.95 for an IT team or consultant who will repair several kinds of Office files, and poor value for anyone with one broken file. The reason to buy is coverage: databases, workbooks, mailboxes, presentations and documents under one license, about $170 cheaper than the five tools separately. The main reason not to is that you probably need only one or two of them, and the single tools cost from $89.95. Run the free demo on your file first: it tells you whether the data is recoverable before you pay.
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