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. Other way, Excel Option >> Trust Center >> Macro Setting >> checked item Enable all macros( not refomented; potentially dangerous code can run)

  2. hai

    i have issue with Excel office 2013 stander it show in desktop all files as a pdf but it is Excel

  3. Worked. Perfect

  4. worked perfectly , thanks :)

  5. Thanks a lot. Work perfectly.

  6. Thank you. it worked.

  7. thank you so much! its worked:)

  8. It worked, I had issue with amazon files. Thank you.

  9. Thank You.

  10. Unfortunately, this solution is not working for me, I had already all these boxes unchecked and I still receive the message that my files are corrupted and this happens so often, that I always need to create several copies every time when I save an Excel file. I'm using Windows 10 and Office 365 the most recent version.

  11. That you so much!!!! it worked :)

  12. This just worked for me too! Thanks so much!

  13. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!! You're a lifesaver...

  14. Thanks very much sir..
    you just save my long distance job, by remote access...

  15. MS EXCEL 2019 IS NOT OPEN. IT SHOWS OPEN IN SAFE MODE IN WINDOWS10

  16. THANKS A TON!!
    THIS REALLY HELPED AND SORTED OUT THE STUPID ISSUE!
    THANKS A LOT AGAIN!!!

  17. worked

  18. Thanks alot! I use excel alot and have a lot of docs which are needed to be downloaded every day. I was quite worried about this when it showed up but now thankfully the problem is resolved.
    Cheers Buddy!

  19. thank you so much! it is working now.

  20. Thanks... This helped me a lot

  21. Thank you so much!

  22. thank you!

  23. Worked PERFECTLY! Thanks a million!!!

  24. its working..thanks lot

  25. Appreciated, it really works.

  26. Thank you so much for this tip. Saved me from agony.

  27. Thank you very much it helped me too

  28. Thanks for that insight it has worked well for me, thanks

  29. Thanks so much worked just great this got me nuts for almost a year, also it always happen to me if the file was coming from Italy then it wont open now we all good to go thanks so much again .

  30. Perfect, Thank you

  31. Thank you! This has been driving me nuts for the past week :)

  32. did not work ..

  33. This worked for me perfectly and save tons of my time and frustration. Thanks!

  34. Thank you! Was having this issue for a while. Resorted to opening files in Google Sheets then copying into Excel. Wasn't great. Your solution works a treat :)

  35. THANK YOU, so much! I had a spreadsheet logging 20 years' worth of irreplaceable data that suddenly gave me this error message - following your steps fixed it perfectly! THANK YOU!!!

  36. didn't work on server 2012r2 office 2010

  37. Thank you very much. It worked perfectly.

  38. thanx it helped

  39. Thank you so much! That worked. That had been a major hassle for a long time.

  40. Thank you for solution it work perfectly!

  41. Had the same error and solution was similar but not the same.
    At step 4 I instead had to go to Trusted Locations and check "Allow trusted locations on my network." I then had to click "Add new location" and add the location of the supposedly corrupt file to the trusted locations list.

    Posting my solution here in case it helps anyone else.

  42. This is temporary solution for some excels, but even in many excel this trick is not working getting same error

  43. Mate you saved me hours of work, I thanks you soooooo much...

  44. Thanks so much!

  45. That works perfectly!

  46. Thank U so much
    That was so helpful

  47. I love you
    u r d bst

  48. Thanks a lot for the solution.

  49. It was awesome. Thanks

  50. excellent solution !!! thanks !!!

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