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When your Excel File got corrupted then in this case you are unable to access your file. Excel file get corrupted due to multiple reasons, top three are as follows:  1. Computer gets crash while working on Excel:   In your system get crash while you are working on MS Excel then in this case Excel file get corrupt. Next time when you will try to start Excel, it will display a 'Document Recovery' task pane after rebooting the computer. You can use 'Document Recovery' option to save the recovered Excel workbook by using following steps: Position the mouse pointer over the workbook listed in the Document Recovery task pane. Click the drop-down menu beside the document name and click Save As on the pop-up menu. Save the workbook. 2. Excel unexpectedly closed due to power failure:   If Excel closes unexpectedly due to power failure or some other reasons, in this case excel file get corrupt. You can easily recover your corrupt Excel file by using MS Excel bui...

Have you ever suffered with this error while accessing the excel file: "Excel cannot open the file '(filename)'.xlsx' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file." I have faced this error yesterday while I was working on Excel. ( I found it interesting topic so I am writing a blog post:).. My Live Scenario: I have several excel files stored on my system. I used these files from the same computer daily. Yesterday, when I tried to open several files in Excel 2007 then I found   following error on my computer screen: "Excel cannot open the file '(filename)'.xlsx' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file." After full research on the error, I come to know about the causes & solutions of the ...

There are few methods which are very helpful to salvage data from corrupt excel file. Different method works in different type of corruption cases, so it may be possible that below written method didn't work for all type of excel corruption cases. Excel repair software is always have upper hand over manual method because it take less time and doesn't need any technical knowledge . If excel file doesn't open at your hard drive or on networks then place it on another drive or from network to local hard disk and try to open. Some times it works. Change calculation setting from automatic to manual to open corrupt excel files. In most of cases this method works perfectly and data from corrupt excel sheet recovered successfully. Use following steps to change calculation setting from automatic to manual. Create a new blank workbook open. To create blank click Microsoft Office Button --> New --> New Blank --> Blank Document . Now click on Microsof...

MS excel is a great application which makes many calculation easy for users. But like other MS office application It too can be get corrupt if proper precaution not been taken. Excel (.xls) file corruption leads to data loss situation, user may loss whole data or some part of data due to excel corruption. In some cases corrupts file refuse to open. Although there are several excel repair methods and software are available which can easily repair corrupt files in most of cases. But if file is severely damaged then only few advanced excel repair software can repair it. It is universal truth that Precaution is better then solution. Excel file corruption can be prevent by taking few steps. If you are taking few things in mind while working on MS excel you can easily prevent excel from corruption. MS excel provide few very good features which allow users to recover data in the file corruption case. These features are listed below. AutoSave: Always O...

Excel spreadsheet corruption leads to loss of valuable data. If you are facing same situation then you can repair corrupt or damaged Microsoft excel spreadsheet through excel repair method. There are different methods available to recover the data. You just need to identify the cause of corruption so that you can apply the suitable method to recover data. I am explaining the methods to recover data from corrupt excel spreadsheet in a new sheet. You may find this method bit time consuming if you have tons of individual workbooks and it will recovers only data, not formulas from cells. I am sharing following steps which you can try your own: Open a blank Excel sheet. Paste following formula (without quotes) : “=FileName!A1” in to cal A1. Don’t forget to replace Filename with your corrupt file name. A window will pop up, which contains all worksheets. Select name of your First worksheets and click OK. The first cell of your original damag...

--> MS excel workbook may get corrupt due to several reasons. These reasons could be: 1. It may be possible you can open the Excel file but data is corrupt. 2. File could not be open due to some disk error or network error. If you are facing error as mentioned above then first you need to take the backup of your corrupt or damaged file before using excel recovery methods. Once you take the backup of the file then you can follow these methods to recover your file. Method 1: If File can be open: Apply below written method if you can open corrupt or damaged file. Save your corrupt file in HTML format: If you can open the corrupt MS Excel file, you can "filter" it and try to save it in HTML format, close the file, and then reopen it as follows: On the File menu, click Save As . In the Save as type list, click Web Page (*.htm, *.html) . Under Save , click Entire Workbook , and then click Save . Close the file. O...

--> MS excel is one of the most important application which is used all over the world. Suppose a situation in which you are trying to open a excel file (.xls or .xlsx) but it could not be open and you get a message which says “File is corrupt and could not be open”. This message gives clear indication that your excel spreadsheet has been damaged or corrupt. There are several solutions are available to repair corrupt excel file. If excel file is severely damaged then excel repair is quite difficult. Reason For Excel File Corruption : There are number of reasons due to which excel file get corrupt few of then are explained below. Try to avoid below written situation to avoid excel file corruption. Bad Sectors in hard drive: Over the time hard drive may creates some bad sectors and if excel file is within bad sectors then excel file will get corrupt. Improper system shutdown : This is one of the most common reason for excel file corruption. If excel file i...

Just think you were working on some important excel data and calculation to make your final presentation ready which is schedule within next couple of hours. In case you lost all the excel data which you have prepared from long working hour and you do not have saved it. What will be your situation in such condition? MS excel provide an option to recover last saved data. If you are working on a excel sheet and accidentally your computer system gets shutdown due to power failure, no ups backup or some malware attack on system etc. In such unscheduled shut down there is 99% chances that you may lost the data in excel sheet on which you were working if it was not saved well in time. Your Excel data sheet can get corrupt and there is a possibility that you could not access same excel sheet. Below written method will help you to recover last save data from corrupt excel sheet. If you can't open excel sheet then use this method: ...

--> There are two types of corrupt MS excel files. First one those can be open and the second one those can't be open. Files those are get open are little bit easy to repair with the use of “open and repair” utility of MS excel. But It is quite difficult to repair corrupt excel files which can't be open. You need to use some third party excel repair software or apply some special methods to repair these types of files. Microsoft provides few methods to open corrupt excel files which can't open one such method is “Use external references to link to the corrupted file”. But there are some limitations with this method. It doesn't recover formulas or values from the workbook, it only recover data. So use this method when you want to retrieve only data part of excel workbook. Follow the steps given below: On the File menu, click Open . Then, browse from the current folder to the folder that contains the damaged file, and click Cancel . ...

--> After installing updated version of Microsoft office 2010, it may possible that documents created in lower version of MS office will not open. These errors are quite often with MS excel 2010. when you tried to open excel (.xls) file with MS excel 2010 which are created in MS excel 2007 or 2003, a error message “The file is corrupt cannot be opened” will pop up and you will not able to access your excel spreadsheet. In the above case their are two possibilities 1) Excel file actually get corrupt or 2) It is Microsoft office 2010 error. If excel files actually get corrupt then you need a excel repair software to fix it. For second reason Microsoft provide solution. If you excel file opens perfectly in MS excel 2007 or 2003 but could open in MS office 2010 then you can fix it with below written methods. Method 1: In this method you need to change and repair MS office 2010. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Uninstall a prog...

--> You may have faced an error message while saving your Excel workbook that says MS Excel cannot access the location where you are trying to save the file. In this case, the file is not saved and it leads to a pure case of data loss. If you have updated data backup then you can recover lost data very easily. However, in the absence of proper updated backup, you can still retrieve data of the Excel workbook with the excel repair software. Consider a scenario where you have an Excel workbook to be saved to a network location. While the book is cut paste in the desired location on a network, you have an error message that says: "Microsoft Excel cannot access the file 'Network path'” . You may receive this error message for the following reasons: The file name or path does not exist. The file you are trying to open is being used by another program. Close the document in another program and try again. The name of the book is trying to save is the sam...

Image via Wikipedia --> MS excel is one of the most important spreadsheet application for computer users. Storing and managing data is very easy with Ms excel. All important data saved inside these excel sheet. Imaging the situation in which you are trying to open an important excel sheet but could not do so, it gives some error. These errors means that your spreadsheet is get corrupt and you need to repair it to repair your valuable data.  Excel recovery  is required to repair this damaged .xls sheet. Microsoft offer solution for corrupt excel sheet where you have to link the corrupt spreadsheet with news one. But this solution work hardly ever. So here I am going to explain a solution to easy repair of damaged excel sheet. Follow the steps given below to: Open a n undamaged workbook and a new workbook. In the Insert menu of new workbook find hyperlink and create link with undamaged workbook. Now close undamaged workbook. The link in...

The maintenance of large and multiple entries records has never been as simple as MS Excel has. The comparison of the various entries, looking for a particular piece of information, and maintaining huge database is so simple that even a toddler can make multiple entries in an Excel workbook. But imagine what happens if this utility is easy to work gives an error, and you find that you have a book damaged or corrupted. All the hard work done over a long period of time is wasted and lost. Do not worry, there are several. Xls repair forms for you. And by chance, if not work, they have been keeping a backup. Just go ahead and carry out repairs Excel to remove all their hard work. If you have not created a backup, then you have the Excel repair software available on the market. Note, when you open a workbook in Excel 2003, you get the following message: Errors were detected in 'filename. Xls ", but Microsoft Excel to open the file by making repairs listed below. ...

Millions of people who uses Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and workbooks for personal and professional. Although damage may have serious problems associated with Excel files, the error several can be ... Millions of people who uses Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and workbooks for personal and professional. Although damage may have serious problems associated with Excel files, the error several can be around the Excel document inaccessible. A corrupt Excel document may show an abrupt behavior in the worst situation that can declare the file contents completely unattainable. Now, data stored in the saved in XLS (Excel 2003 and earlier version) format or XLSX (Excel 2007). These files can get damaged and prone to corruption in the case of application error, virus attacks, unexpected system shutdown and other network failures. In case of loss of user information can also make use of backup recent files. Every time the backup is not available and the file is damaged yet,...

You will be shocked to hear that Excel spreadsheets are also immune to corruption. When it gets corrupt, it starts showing you unusual behavior. In short, you cannot smoothly work with your Excel spreadsheet. Corruption can occur anytime. It does not ask you. Corruption makes all the data of the Excel file inaccessible. But such data loss can be easily recovered, if you have an updated backup in your system, else you need to repair Excel file. However, maintaining a backup is not everyone's habit. That is why, it is advised to make a backup of your valuable data. However, still there is no need to get upset because you also have a choice of a commercial Excel Repair tools to get data of Excel file back. To further clarify above issue, consider the case discussed. Suppose you have a problem while working with Excel application. A problem is like that you had an Excel spreadsheet that is exhibiting quite unusual behavior. In a same spreadsheet there are more than 20 ...

You will be shocked to hear that Excel spreadsheets are also immune to corruption. When it gets corrupt, it starts showing you unusual behavior. In short, you cannot smoothly work with your Excel spreadsheet. Corruption can occur anytime. It does not ask you. Corruption makes all the data of the Excel file inaccessible. But such data loss can be easily recovered, if you have an updated backup in your system, else you need to repair Excel file. However, maintaining a backup is not everyone's habit. That is why, it is advised to make a backup of your valuable data. However, still there is no need to get upset because you also have a choice of a commercial Excel Repair tools to get data of Excel file back. To further clarify above issue, consider the case discussed. Suppose you have a problem while working with Excel application. A problem is like that you had an Excel spreadsheet that is exhibiting quite unusual behavior. In a same spreadsheet there are more than 20 ...

MS Excel make our work really simple, it can manager very large amount of data and perform addition, multiplication, subtraction and division in fraction of seconds with great accuracy. Excel can handle very large amount of data and anyone which have little knowledge of computers can operate it. But some time our excel sheet did not open and give some errors, due to file get corrupted. All the hard work over a long period of time is wasted and lost. Do not worry, there are several xls repair forms for you. And by chance, if not work, that have been keeping a backup. Always create backup of every important files and folders so that if your original data get damaged then you can use backup. If you not created backup then use excel repair software to get your valuable data back. You may get this following Error message while working on excel 2003. Errors were detected in 'filename. Xls, but Microsoft Excel to open the file by making repairs listed below. Save the file t...

Stellar information system launched new version of Stellar Phoenix Excel recovery software. It is designed to recover and repair corrupted MS excel (.xls & .xlsx) files. It have better and upgrade features to overcome with limitations of older version. This software uses very advance algorithm to scan corrupted MS Excel files, and repair in its original form. You can save recovered files anywhere within your hard disk. Key Features : 1)It recovers engineering formulas, images and charts 2)Capable to recover hights of colinms and rows in original form 3)All cell comments can be recovered 4)Merge will be in original sape 5)Now you can recover hidden sheets and colunms 6)Recovers each and every shared formulas 7)Text, numbers and tables , recovered in its original form without altering anything 8)Formatting did not alters 9)Recovers all embedded functions from the original Excel sheet 10)Compatible with Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/Windows ...