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. "excel file not open because file format or file extension is not valid verify that file has not been corrupted and file extension match the format of file"

  2. THANKS!! YOU SAVE ME!!!!

  3. THANKS!! YOU SAVE ME!!!!

  4. nice man

  5. It fixed but setting does not retain after system restart.

  6. Its working Thanks lot

  7. Yay! Thanks!

  8. Thanks a Lot, Now its working.

  9. Thanks a lot for your solution

  10. excel sheet not open showing this error
    "excel file not open because file format or file extension is not valid verify that file has not been corrupted and file extension match the format of file"

    1. yeah .. on me too :(

  11. Hi sir,my excel file delete after that i use one recovery software fianlly find that excel sheet.when i open that excel sheet the file format and extension of don't match excel. the file could be corrupted or unsafe.please hlp me how to fix

  12. "Thank u so much for this info.my issue is resolved."

  13. Thanks man u r such a genius... was facing problem.long time finally it works ...thnk u so much

  14. Thanks!

  15. Worked like a charm...Thanks a ton...!!!!

  16. Thanks.Its working fine

  17. Hi,
    I have a file that has the same message when opened in excel 2007 "The file is corrupt and can not be opened". But I still open it in excel 2010.

    Please help!

  18. My Excel File Is Currept I Requst for you Repair file

  19. Thanks a man really it worked

  20. Thanks a lot...
    my excel is working now

  21. Its work for me when I uncheck all open in file block settings under trust center.

  22. Thanks man, I appreciate it.

  23. Worked for Excel 2016.
    Thanks

  24. No protected view in my excel option.
    How to solve?

  25. this worked! Thanks very much!

  26. thank you!!

  27. Thanks bro!! I was almost breaking this PC!

  28. Thanks a million!

  29. Thanks so much! I was having trouble with an Excel file after upgrading to Windows 10 (file had been opening fine before the upgrade) and this fixed it.

  30. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It worked for me!!!!

  31. You are a genius!! Been searching the answers for years and bingo you are good!

  32. I saved my files in my flash drive, unfortunately my flash drive has been corrupted. I am trying to open my recent excel files, but it says could not be found, check the spelling of the file name and verify that the file location is correct. Is there any possible way where I can save and open my recent documents. I tried to recover my files from my flash drive but 0 files detected

  33. I saved my files in my flash drive, unfortunately my flash drive has been corrupted. I am trying to open my recent excel files, but it says could not be found, check the spelling of the file name and verify that the file location is correct. Is there any possible way where I can save and open my recent documents.

  34. If you are getting error message "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened" in Excel 2010 while trying to open any of your saved excel document then you can fix this issue by using MS Excel Repair tool. It is especially designed to resolve the error that occurs while using the excel file.

  35. Thnanx lot this solution

  36. you are the best i have a client at work who have issue and i was able to help them thanks

  37. This did the trick
    Thank you

  38. thanks its working.

  39. I did what you said. It doesn't work for me. I can't open any of my excel and word files. I didn't have any problems before until just this week. Now I can't open any of my files. I get a corrupted message.

    1. You might need to also update the "Trusted Locations" to include the file location.

      BTW, the warning still pops up for me, it is just that I can now elect to continue and the file opens.

  40. That's very important , thank you very much . this is successfully worked

  41. Thank you very much friend. It works well.
    Thumbs up to you! =D

  42. sir . file still not open , its more then 10 megabit . please help me it very important data

  43. superb, It is working now.

  44. For me, the issue was a photo image in the google spreadsheet. I tried a bunch of things that didn't work but by deleting the inserted image. The file would download as excel without the error message and can be emailed as attachment.

    Action item: If you have an image, delete it from the google doc and test it.

  45. pls
    I have an Excel 2007 file (.xlsx) that will not open. When I could not
    open it, I tried to just preview it. The error message says: "This file
    cannot be previewed because it is corrupted." I also tried to print
    directly from the file list, but I still get the "corrupted file" message.

  46. Did not work for me
    "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened" this message is only appears

  47. Yes It worked

    Thanks

  48. Thanks
    This worked for excel 2013 as well.

    I faced the issue with all excel 2013, word 2013and PowerPoint 2013 while opening file from outlook.

    But can you explain why this happened suddenly after two years of using MS office 2013?

    1. Sorry, we can’t say why this happened.

  49. my all xlsx file automatically rename to .XLSX.unpanvf and could not open

    1. Please note that Excel can’t automatically rename anything. The problem is likely in the way of opening files by some standalone program or add-in.

  50. Thanks for your solution this is working now..

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