Open a new Excel workbook and type the following formula into cell A1 to reference cell A1 of the corrupted workbook and press Enter: =File Name!A1 Once you see the value of cell A1 from the ...

1] Microsoft Excel’s Native Repairing Feature When you are trying to open a corrupted Excel file, Microsoft Excel automatically starts file recovery mode and tries to repair the Excel file.

Excel files are not immune to corruption. They can get corrupted, due to factors, like virus attacks, software failure, unexpected system shutdown, etc., putting your precious data at risk.

In this respect, Excel can help. If you attempt to open a corrupted workbook, Excel will engage File Recovery mode, which attempts to repair the workbook. If that works, great! Unfortunately ...

I have a file that's very important to an employee. She needs the data in it but for some reason, Excel won't open it. If I double-click on it, Excel launches, thinks for a second and then stops.

It's a nightmare, the frightening scenario that scares every Microsoft Office owner: one of your most important Word, Excel or PowerPoint files has somehow been corrupted. And now it either won't ...

The biggest pain when working with files is when they get corrupt. While Office 365 offers a file recovery feature for all its file types, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but if that doesn ...