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. it really works..

  2. Thanks...it worked

  3. 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

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

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

  6. Thanku :)

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

  8. MANTAPPPPPPPP

  9. Spot on!

  10. thk...

  11. Waaoooo!!!! its working now...

  12. THank u so much .. its helped me lot ..

    Sathish.K

  13. Awesome. Thank you!

  14. Thanks Dear ! its working fine.. :)

  15. Thanks a lot. The solution works

  16. Thank you so much! Microsoft was useless but your fix worked!

  17. verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry thanks

  18. VERY THANK.

  19. you are a GOD... Thanks

  20. thanx

  21. Problem wasn't solved unless unchecking all options related to older version of excel's in File Block Settings.

    1. Thank you!

  22. not workn

  23. Awesome! Thanks

  24. Thank u for ur valuble information.it's working nice.

  25. Finally!! Thanks a million for posting this - Microsoft is the worst user experience ever!!

  26. I have spent and entire month using a flash drive to save my excel files, as I thought my microsoft outlook was corrupting them when it gave me the error message 'The file is corrupt'. You just saved me from a heart-attack due to frustration. Thanks a million times. Wish my I.T guy could have just told me this.

  27. Thanks a lot....this really works for me..

  28. Awesome! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! It worked so easily.

  29. EXCELLENT! Great tip!

  30. yeap! it worked here too!

  31. Worked! Thanks bro

  32. Thanks for valuable post

  33. Ohh it works,

    Thanks buddy.

  34. Thanks a lot. It worked for me.

  35. its working , Thank u very much

  36. works man,
    thanks a lot
    rgds
    chetan

  37. well you just fixed a problem that suddenly popped up two days ago - and, of course, just when I most needed the file - utterly ridiculous this should suddenly be a problem but there you go. It worked in under a minute. Wish I had the 180 minutes back that I spent reconstructing a file that existed...

  38. Thank you very much! It worked!!

  39. It worked perfectly thank you very much.

  40. THANX DEAR

  41. Tks.

  42. Thanks a lot..
    It's working....

  43. someone that coudln't open excel files he receive from extenral domain in his outlook, I tried to delete outlook temp ==> same problem.

    tried your advise, unchecked it all, works fine !
    thank you very much!

  44. Worked for me :)
    Thx !

  45. Thank you so much for your valued advise. It help me .

  46. It works.

  47. thanks a lot , is working file :)

  48. works thanks

  49. Its works but is there any permanent fix?

  50. It works!!!! thank a lot ppl

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