How to Create a New Workbook in Excel. In Microsoft Excel, a program packaged with Microsoft Office, you can create databases of information and then make calculations, graphs and charts based on ...

If you cannot insert, add or create new cells in worksheets in Microsoft Excel, remove cell protection and unmerge the Rows to begin with.

But, you can use Excel to view files and folder details of a directory, which would be helpful to you to know at least the list of files and folders that were deleted.