Will system restore recover deleted files?

System Restore doesn't know or care about any of your personal files.

If you accidentally delete a file and it is not recoverable from the Recycle Bin, there are third party tools that you can look into to see if they can recovery your lost file(s).  Generally speaking the data from "deleted" files are still on the hard drive until that space they occupy is needed for something else, then that space where your deleted file is will be overwritten.

Keep in mind that the more you "use" your disk and read/write data to it, the less your chances of recovery the file are going to be since XP may decide to use that area of the disk where your deleted file is.  So if you delete something accidentally, you should try to recover it ASAP.

Some folks have good result with this free tool (you can use Google to find others):

Recuva

If you feel like trying it out, install it, make a few temporary files or copy some files somewhere to another folder/location, and delete the temporary or copied files on purpose.

Then see if Recuva will recover them for you.

If you don't like it, uninstall it.  Sometimes I install it just to recovery a file(s), then uninstall it when I'm done.

Hi Bontii,

System restore will not recover the deleted files.

You may try to recover the files from the Recycle Bin.

For more information, refer to this link: To delete or restore files in the Recycle Bin

For Microsoft Office issue, I would recommend you to post your question in Microsoft Office forum for assistance.

Refer: Support for Microsoft Office Community Forums

Hope the information helps.