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. Thanks mate!

  2. 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

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

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

  5. 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!!!

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

  7. really u r a genius

  8. Thank you so much!!!!!!!

  9. spot on, thank you!

  10. It worked thanks

  11. 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.

  12. Thank you so much. Its works properly.

  13. Hailliluahhhhh!!! No thanks to microsoft troubleshoots

  14. WONDERFULL It works!! Thanks

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

  16. Thank you. is works!

  17. Thank you so much............

  18. THANK YOU

  19. Thank you! You helped me out alot!

  20. Thank you so much! it worked :)

  21. Thank you so much… Its working fine

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

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

  24. Thanks a lot... It works!!!

  25. Thank you, Works great now!

  26. Thank you so very very much!!

  27. Thanks so much

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

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

  30. thank you

  31. Vow!!!Brilliant ....was trying from a very long time...n i got much appreciations from my boss after fixing this problem, thx Mr.Alexander

  32. thnks alot..really worked...

  33. thanks alot..it helped

  34. Works great now! Thanks!!! Thought the issues was within Outlook, but it was Excel having the issues.

  35. Thank you. I have same "bug" in my PowerPoint. Now all "set up" is unsecured, and work fine! :)

  36. Thank you that worked.

  37. Thank You very much, I had been moving docs to a different PC to Open the Excel docs. You have helped me from botheration

  38. thank u thank u thank u so much
    its working

  39. Thank you so much...
    Its working super...

  40. Graet it's working

  41. it really works..

  42. Thanks...it worked

  43. thanks a lot its working fine.but when i enable the options again i am not able to open the attachments of mails what i have sent .Can you please give me permanent solution

  44. Thank you! it works for me, I was bored by this for several days, really a good tips.

  45. wow.... it worked!!.......thank u so much :) :)

  46. Thanku :)

  47. thank u so so so so much sir, u r gr8 :)

  48. MANTAPPPPPPPP

  49. Spot on!

  50. thk...

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