Comments on: Get rid of "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened" in Excel

Usually when upgrading you expect nothing but improvements. So it can be really disappointing when after moving to Excel 2010 you have no chance to access your xls. file. You understand what I’m talking about if you ever encountered the "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened" error in Excel 2010. Still think it can’t open? Actually it can! Continue reading →

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  1. You have no idea how many hours of work you just saved me. Thank you thank you thank you! So, is the unfortunate lesson learned that you cannot convert all previously created files to Excel 2010?

  2. I Love you.

  3. Rad this worked, thanks!

  4. my file as same problem if any problem with registry due to the virus?

    1. Sorry, I am not sure I can follow you. Could you please explain the problem in more detail?

  5. Thanks Dear , Its working ...

  6. thanks a lot...its working again

  7. if i have a password on the sheet .. its working this steps
    when i log by administrator that excel sheet open with my pass
    if i log with anouther account i see this message
    The file is corrupt and cannot be opened

    1. Hello Mahmoud,
      Thank you for the info! I will try to reproduce the issue and if succeed, I will add a notice to the article.

  8. thanx a lot

  9. Did not work for me. Those options were already unchecked. I frequently get that error when trying to open a 2nd excel file when I already have one open. It's driving me crazy. I have lost so much productivity since "upgrading" to Excel 10.

    1. This is very strange. Do you get this message on the same files or randomly? On which drive are the files located - local or network drive?

  10. It works! Thank you so much! LIKE!!!!

  11. It works. Thanks alot Alex.

  12. Thanks allot for sharing this tip

  13. Many, many thanks.

  14. I have fixed that problem
    Thanks alot

  15. Please help me man i'm in deep shitt.
    If i didn't open the excel file i'm fired from my job,,,,, pleaseeeeeeee help meeeee. i can send u the file on ur email if u want, pleaseeeeeee

  16. Great!! it worked. Thank you.

  17. thanks , prob solved

  18. Hi

  19. Uninstall TuneUp Utilities and this message could go away.

  20. Thanks man, it's working now.

  21. Thanks mate!

  22. Hi all

    I have save all my excel files in usb. now my excel file can not open and it has a message as

    Excel cannot open the file 'A.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.

    can you please help me how to open this file
    Thanks

  23. guys coming in after august 2013... mostly you are affected by cryptolocker... and this solution is not for such files...

  24. it doesn't work for me. gee....

  25. I tried all the things but it didn't work.
    But after trying this i am able to open my attached excel sheet from Outlook 2010.

    Thank you very much!!!

  26. Saved my bacon, thought I'd lost a whole load of work but this technique enabled me to open the corrupt xlsx file. Thanks!

  27. really u r a genius

  28. Thank you so much!!!!!!!

  29. spot on, thank you!

  30. It worked thanks

  31. Genius! Such an unhelpful (and wrong) message from Excel after downloading a .xlsx file from Google Docs. Fixed by simply unticking these boxes. Thank you.

  32. Thank you so much. Its works properly.

  33. Hailliluahhhhh!!! No thanks to microsoft troubleshoots

  34. WONDERFULL It works!! Thanks

  35. Thank you so much, it works!!!!!

  36. Thank you. is works!

  37. Thank you so much............

  38. THANK YOU

  39. Thank you! You helped me out alot!

  40. Thank you so much! it worked :)

  41. Thank you so much… Its working fine

  42. it help, thanks alot. abit late to find this resolution. at least no more problem.

  43. Thank you! This saved me from wasting time...

  44. Thanks a lot... It works!!!

  45. Thank you, Works great now!

  46. Thank you so very very much!!

  47. Thanks so much

  48. a big THANK YOU, i tried so many other suggestions, non worked, yours worked first time.

  49. Awesome, thanks so much, this was driving me crazy.

  50. thank you

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