How to Repair Excel File?

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet tool which is highly capable to store, organize and manipulate the numerical data in a grid form of columns and rows. It enables users to keep the record of each and every detail in a well-organized way. It has different mathematical formulas to perform small as well as large mathematical calculations. It also enables users to create graphical presentation of their data using its built-in features.

Though this is highly resourceful application, however not immune to corruption. The spreadsheets created in Microsoft Excel are prone to corruption. Corruption in Excel files may lead to data inaccessibility or permanent data loss. There are various reasons of corruption in Excel files. But luckily, Microsoft provides a built-in repair feature in its Office components, including MS Excel. The Open and Repair feature is highly recommended in case of file corruption in MS Office components which include Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Follow the steps shown below to Open and Repair Excel spreadsheet:

Step 1: Launch Microsoft Excel on your system. But do not open the file.

Step 2: Click File tab on top > click Open in the list.

Or you may simply press Ctrl + O.

Step 3: Now locate the Excel spreadsheet, but do not open it.

Click the file once to select it. Now click the drop-down arrow next to Open..

Step 4: Click Open and Repair to repair the selected Excel spreadsheet.

Unluckily, the trick might now work if your Excel spreadsheets are severely corrupted. This built-in repair feature can only fix corruption if it is minor. To fix severe corruption, you need to opt a third-party recovery tool that can fix corrupt Excel file and recover your maximum possible data from it. You can try advanced Excel Recovery tool of Data Recovery Solutions to repair Excel file.

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