RESTORE CORRUPT FILE



I would try these steps, in the order presented. Each has been used here many times. Sometimes they work,
sometimes they don't.


NOTE: ALWAYS USE THESE STEPS ON A COPY OF YOUR WORKBOOK, NOT THE ORIGINAL. If something
goes wrong you haven't lost the original.

#1
My favorite first attempt is to use this free program. It's safe, I've used it many times when downloaded straight from the author :

https://excelfilecleaner.codeplex.co...ses/view/85025
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#2
https://support.office.com/en-us/art...A-801DDCD4EA53
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#3
If you're having a problem with an Excel file, save it as HTML (which is one of the file types in Excel), then save it back to .xls

They say that will often recover lost information, or restore a corrupt file.
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#4
Another way of restoring broken/corrupted Excel files

I've been quite lucky actually opening corrupted files in OpenOffice, saving them, and then re-opening them in Excel. Sometimes the formatting will be a little off, but the data is almost always recovered, as well as most of the formatting. Unfortunately, not all of the formula and charts are, but when it happened I was happy anything was salvaged at all. ================================================== ================================


#5
http://directory.s2services.com/excel.htm
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