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How to Repair a severely damaged excel worksheet

Submitted by azee on 2 September, 2012 - 09:58

My excel sheet won't Open with an error (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)

Please help this file is important to me...

Thanks

My Damaged Excel Sheet
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My solution

Submitted by NIKA on 16 November, 2015 - 15:00.

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please post the file for us

Submitted by mark1230 on 22 September, 2015 - 09:48.

please post the file for us to try.

Some posts that can help

http://freespreadsheet.net/best-software-to-recover-severely-corrupted-m...
http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-a-Corrupt-Excel-File
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-ways-to-recover-a-corrupte...

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Almir's picture

Could you send your file?

Submitted by Almir on 8 August, 2014 - 16:03.

Could you send your file?

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If you are looking for a way

Submitted by drew46cassidy on 2 August, 2014 - 20:17.

If you are looking for a way to repair corrupt .xlsx file, you can try "Open and Repair" function of MS Excel. It is very simple and effective.

But if fails, you may try a third-party Excel Recovery software. I can recommend Excel Repair Toolbox tool to fix corrupt .xlsx file and to recover your data from it. You may try its free demo version first.

To know more about this software and to download its free demo version, visit: http://www.excelrepairtoolbox.com/

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If you are looking for a way

Submitted by drew46cassidy on 2 August, 2014 - 20:16.

If you are looking for a way to repair corrupt .xlsx file, you can try "Open and Repair" function of MS Excel. It is very simple and effective.

But if fails, you may try a third-party Excel Recovery software. I can recommend Excel Repair Toolbox tool to fix corrupt .xlsx file and to recover your data from it. You may try its free demo version first.

To know more about this software and to download its free demo version, visit:

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Another Solution!!

Submitted by adam on 30 October, 2012 - 10:47.

In most of the cases, this error occurs when Excel file get corrupted. In this case, you should try 'Open & Repair' option to repair corrupt file. If this option get failed to resolve this error then you should use Excel Repair Software. These software repairs corrupt Excel File as well as objects. Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is one of the best utility which you can try!

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Nick's picture

only one other option... try

Submitted by Nick on 4 September, 2012 - 20:18.

only one other option...
try a different version of Excel... I don't hold much hope though.

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Nick's picture

try downloading open office

Submitted by Nick on 3 September, 2012 - 11:08.

try downloading open office and opening it in that...

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try downloading open office (Reply)

Submitted by azee on 4 September, 2012 - 15:20.

Thanks but i already did that as well as Excel viewer and other many free recovery softwares. Got any other advice??

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Almir's picture

Try to recover original extension

Submitted by Almir on 2 April, 2014 - 11:01.

It could be that .XLSX is not its original extension (format), but it has been changed manually. Try to change extension manually to .XLS, maybe even .PDF. Maybe you are trying to open the wrong copy of the file.

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