Excel for Microsoft 365 Excel 2019 Excel 2016 Excel 2013 When Microsoft Excel detects a corrupted workbook upon opening, it automatically starts File Recovery mode and attempts to repair the workbook. If File Recovery mode doesn’t start, try using this manual process to recover your workbook: Click File > Open.
Usually, we can infer the corruption from the symptoms of opening a file and some specific error messages. The file format has been changed from .xls or .xlsx to some strange ones you cannot open Data stored in Excel has changed to different character or werid character Excel cannot open the file (‘file name’).xlsx because.
If you successfully access the Excel file data, the message “The Excel file corrupted and cannot be opened” will not appear. It means you get the issue fixed. Otherwise, you can continue to try other methods. You can change the Component Service settings to solve the Excel file corrupted issue.
One more query we ran across in our research was “How do I open and repair an Excel file?”.
Well, this option is at the bottom of the drop-down menu. If Open and Repair is greyed out, make sure that your Excel file is selected and try again. If it’s still greyed out, you can’t repair this file. Click Repair when prompted. It’s in a pop-up window. Windows will begin attempting to repair your file.
A question we ran across in our research was “How to repair a corrupted Excel workbook?”.
When Microsoft Excel detects corruption in a workbook, it attempts to repair the workbook by starting ‘File Recovery mode’. If the file recovery mode doesn’t start, you may use the manual repair process or an Excel repair tool, such as Stellar Repair for Excel to repair a corrupted Excel file.
What are the common causes of Excel file corruption?
And here are 6 most frequently encountered reasons that will cause the corruption of Excel files: Sometimes, a sudden power failure is unavoidable due to various reasons. If one person uses desktop computer with no uninterruptible power supply(UPS), a sudden power failure will shut down the computer instantly.
The Excel application gets stuck, freezing, crashing from time to time upon launch A corrupt Excel file can result in a lot of wasted time and severe data loss. Nobody can keep calm after seeing their hardwork going haywire. In spite of this, try your best to take a deep breath to minimize the damage the corruption did for you.
Large size files: Excessive storage of data in a single Excel file can also result in its corruption. You’re suggested not to store large size of information on a single Excel file.
What should I do if a file is corrupted?
If you have a corrupted file, your best bet is to try grabbing that file from the source again. Download it again, if that’s where you got it, or have someone resend the file to you.
This of course begs the question “How to repair corrupted files on Windows?”
Click on the “Open” button or just press Ctrl + O on your keyboard. Locate the corrupted file on your computer’s memory and select it. Click on the More icon (the dropdown button) located adjacent to the Open button and choose to “Open and Repair” the file.