Repair File Excel Corrupt

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Ifneither automatic nor manual repair works, there are some recovery methods that might help salvage your data. You can also take some preventive measures to avoid losing your work by automatically saving a backup copy of your workbook or creating a recovery file from time to time.

Use external references to link to the corrupted workbook To retrieve only data and not formulas or calculated values from the workbook, try using external references to link to the corrupted workbook.

My very important budget-file is corrupted! I use Excel for Mac 2008 on my Macbook (Mac OS X 10.6.8). I recently used the file but now when I want to open it it says 'The file you are trying to open is possibly read-only or the location you are trying to open is read-only. Or the server you are trying to access is not responding'.

I tried all of these recommendations to no avail. I even went as far as to buy a file repair application (it just crashed repeated). In the end I found that I could open my Excel file in Numbers! I then exported from Numbers back to Excel and voila! Problem solved!

3. Click on the small drop-down arrow at the right side of the "Open" button. Choose the "Open and Repair" option. Choose "Repair" to have Excel attempt to recover the damaged file. Choose "Extract data" to extract the information in the spreadsheet to another file.

6. Choose the "All files and folders" option and type ".xls" in the search box. This will find all Excel spreadsheets on your computer, whether they were created in Excel 2007 or an earlier version. Click "OK" to start the search.

let them do the open and repair ( open black excel file / file / open / choose file / choose open and repair (there is open button and and arrow , click the arrow to show open and repair button ) / the file will open / save it / let him send it back to your email / open it on your mac and its solved

I have experienced the same problem and was wondering if any software can help me fix the issue. I could not find any software that can repair Excel file on the Mac so I copied the file on Windows and tried demo version of a software. That works up to an extent, but could not recover the formatting.

This is an excellent tip, and saved me several hours of rework. I had a largish file with some tangly formulas with indirect, dcount/dstdev, averageif, and some array formulas and it stopped opening. Excel would crash with a EXCBADACCESS every time, on multiple machines and the most recent backup that would open meant losing several hours work. After opening it with auto-calculation turned off and saving it and turning auto-calc back on, it stopped crashing Excel on open.

Marifilps364, the instructions you provided are for the Windows version of Excel running on Microsoft Windows. The software you linked to is for Windows only. Useful information but not applicable to Macs.

I followed the suggestion to send the file to a Windows system. Then I changed the extension .xlsx to .xls on Explorer, and proceeded to open the file on Excel. I byassed any warnings to proceed as such, and Excel was able to open the file. I then saved the file as .xlsx, and sent it back to the Mac system.

I am having problems opening files on my ipad pro using the Excel program for ios. I can work on a file (located in Dropbox) several times and then for no reason that I can determine, I can no longer open the file...getting the message 'cannot open file, file corrupted'. I can still open the file on any of my other computers, but the only way to get it to open again on the iPad is to do a 'save as' command and rename it on the computer. This is a huge issue as I have converted to traveling with my iPad pro instead of my laptop, so when on the road for business, I am stuck with files that cannot be opened. Does anybody have any knowledge of this problem that can shed some light on a fix? Otherwise the iPad Pro is going to become a home decoration and I'll go back to the laptop and an external wifi device...

I have the exact same issue. Files open just fine on my iMac, but some files will not open on iPad or iPhone. Files are on Dropbox and Excel says file is corrupt. Has become an issue only recently since last Excel app update around March 18. Let me know if you hear of a fix.

SAme issue for me - i can create a file on my mac and save it in the cloud, open it and edit it on ipad successfully. If i then go back to the mac and edit it, it no longer will open on my iPad. If i then open it on my mac and copy the contents into a new workbook, then save again, it will then open on my iPad.

Glad I'm not alone! I've tried to restart Excel on my ios twice and that didn't work. I believe this started happening after recently updating my ios software,. After that, none of my files that I use constantly work anymore on the app except on computers. Excel app may need another update to get this bug fix.

That's the funniest thing I've read all week.Same problem here: up-to-date .xlsx files, created with newest version of Excel for Mac, saved in Dropbox, open fine on several Macs, but Excel for ios on iPhone and iPad can't open them, claiming they're "corrupted."

Oh I tried Microsoft. Their online support tried a couple of obvious things (delete and reinstall) that didn't work. Then they referred me to their telephone support. Telephone support tried something more complicated (using MS OneDrive instead of Dropbox) that still didn't work. Then they referred me to the same online support site I had started with. When I pointed out that I had already done that I was told there was nothing else they could do. Then they tried to sell me Office 365, explaining "our free apps don't always work."

Microsoft support has always been aimed at people who simply don't know how to use their products. If you encounter an actual bug they will try to pass the buck, or up-sell you. I'm just trying to get their software to perform a basic function.

If I create workbook on my Mac and save it in Dropbox or OneDrive, I can open and edit it in Excel for ios. However, if I open and edit an existing workbook on the Mac, and then save it, I cannot subsequently open it in Excel for ios (I get the "file is corrupted" error message).

I wonder if the problem is that Excel for ios sees that the file has been changed since it was last opened on the iPad and therefore thinks it's corrupted. In other words it isn't set to work on documents in shared resources like OneDrive or Dropbox.

I broke down and subscribed to Office 365 on my mac. If you pay for the iOS app, you actually get the software on 1 desktop included in the monthly price. I had been running a paid copy of Office 2011 on my Mac.

Lo and behold, everything works now. I wonder if MSFT is just pushing everyone to adopt Office 365 on a subscription basis? Not the root I wanted to go, but I needed functionality back and couldn't wait around for this to get resolved.

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I have a relatively simple excel file that contains some macros to do some text manipulation. It was working 1 month ago. I updated my office 356 to the current year. Now, it opens, but no modules can be displayed or exported. I have repaired office, uninstalled it, re installed it and re-repaired it. I've gone back to backups of the file. Repairing it remove ALL FORMULAS and ALL MODULES. So, "repair" isn't really a repair. The errors reported (that corrupted an entire file) is two lines saying there was a problem in a formula on one of the sheets. "Details" restates that exact text in XML, so clearly not any form of "detail". I am a power user having used Excel and VBA for decades. Does anyone have a solution? Does Microsoft even care?

Where the table would have a header in blue fill & bold format, is now instead showing every other row with that format and all white font. I never set that style, however if I investigate the faulty spreadsheet, it will show that as the set style.

@Kazi_N I do get the "there is a problem with this file" dialogue box and I allow Excel to repair it. The log files indicate that there are problems with "Styles", but the repaired file looks pretty okay. Compared it to opening the file on a PC and that one does not have any problems. The slicer styles come out dark blue buttons on light blue background on the Mac where on the PC it's dark blue on white. Then, on the Quote sheet in the top left hand corner, the conditional format that whites-out some cells below "Employee count" on the PC, doesn't seem to work the same as the formatting colours changed. See screenshot taken on the Mac. Don't know what causes this. Never experience it before.

United States/Americas region will open just fine. Once I switch to a different region outside US and open the same file, I get the corruption notice. This makes me guess that there must be an issue with the custom currency formats I have.

I'm trying to write my output into a template that has macros and pivot table. Every time I run the workflow, my excel file will corrupt and even if I try to recover it, excel says it cannot be recovered. (basically just click open and a message prompt up from excel to ask if I want to recover it)

I've faced a similar issue when Excel macros were disabled without any notification in the "Trust center" settings. I had to select "Enable all macros" to get Alteryx to write output to the .xlsm file efficiently. I'm not sure if this is the only fix, but hope this helps.

One thing I have noticed is; the Excel file gets corrupt if there is a sheet with Pivot in it. If you get rid of the Pivot sheet from destination workbook this problem goes away. At least worked for me.

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