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in the description below hi everyone Microsoft Excel is widely used nowadays and people use it
for a wide variety of purposes from personal spreadsheets to business presentations while
it's fantastic that Excel has eliminated spending on printing presentations there's
still times you might want to print something out last minute but what do you do if your Excel
file suddenly becomes corrupt right before a crucial presentation do you need to start from
scratch or is a corrupted file still usable the good news is the file is still usable so don't
worry I'll show you some reliable methods to repair corrupted or damaged Excel files
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's current state is determined by the progression of technology and these advancements have made a
lot possible but even with these advancements you can still encounter corrupted or damaged Excel
files before we get started on the solutions it's crucial to First understand what might be
causing foul corruption in the first place so let's run through some of the main causes now
to fix corrupted or damaged Excel files we first need to understand what went wrong so
here are some of the most common causes one the mishandling of an Excel file is one of the most
common causes of file corruption like shutting down your system while your Excel file is still
being processed two it's possible that the partition or the external storage device for
your Excel file is stored has become damaged or corrupted three your Excel spreadsheet might be
infected by a virus or malicious software that can cause damage to excel's essential Parts four in
the Microsoft Excel application or the Microsoft Office Suite on your computer has become infected
it's possible this might also corrupt your XLS files sometimes the problem can also be traced
back to a third-party application an unreliable plug-in a forced conversion of the file or any
number of other problems well now that you know some of the most common causes of corrupted Excel
files let's run through a couple of solutions to restore those corrupted or damaged Excel files
now that we've covered some of the most common causes of corrupted or damaged Excel files
let's run through some tried and tested solutions to repair your corrupted files
want to share repair it is without a doubt my go-to solution for restoring damaged files
whenever you have a corrupted Excel file this should be the first tool you try to fix the
problem it's an easy to use application that can fix a wide variety of Microsoft
Office documents including Excel word PDF and PowerPoint documents in just a few clicks and
it can fix Excel files that have been damaged in any way it even lets you preview the repaired
file and save the document wherever you like here's how it works first launch wondershare
repair on your computer and select the file repair option from the menu bar to fix your
damaged or corrupted Excel files to add a damaged Excel file to the program click on the add button
when your damaged Excel documents have been imported you can view information
about them such as their size and location on the side window before selecting repair
after that the software will automatically fix your corrupted or damaged Excel files while you
relax for a bit it also allows you to monitor the current status of the Excel mending process
wondershare repair will notify you when the repair process is complete and you can examine
the corrected data by hitting the preview button here on repair its native interface
you can see a preview of the fixed Excel file to see if it was successfully loaded
if everything looks good just hit the save button to the right of the file's information
once your Excel file has been restored with the repairage you can save it to a safe location on
your computer want to share a parrot is a great solution for repairing almost any problems with
your Microsoft Excel files however there's also some other Solutions I can recommend
thank you Microsoft has developed an integrated repair solution for
office files which makes it easy to repair a variety of minor issues here's how to use
the built-in tool to repair some minor XLS or xlsx issues Excel files that have been damaged
or corrupted can be opened in Microsoft Excel and repaired by clicking on menu file and open
excel's open function now has a drop down menu and you can actually choose to have
Microsoft Excel automatically try to fix the problem by choosing open and repair
if your Excel spreadsheet only has a small issue this may be able to solve the problem
next problems with Microsoft excel's temporary files can sometimes lead to incompatibilities
with your permanent data however this can easily be fixed by deleting your temporary office files
to do that you can just launch Windows Explorer and go to your windows drive now navigate to users
your username app data local Microsoft and choose office you can now delete files that end in TMP by
doing a manual search then you can attempt loading your damaged XLS file into Microsoft Excel again
after being corrupted by a virus or malware your Excel file is vulnerable to the type of corruption
we've discussed already therefore scanning your Excel files with virus protection software can
help to restore the corrupted documents to do this repair right click on your Excel file and select
to scan it with your preferred antivirus software you could even scan the file with Microsoft
Defender Windows built-in security program if you don't have any anti-malware software installed
after that's done open Microsoft Excel and try to load the damaged file [Music]
next up a rogue add-in installed in office can lead to all sorts of annoying problems when an
add-in causes problems with your Excel files the best approach to fix the issue is to delete the
add-in to do this first open Microsoft Excel and navigate to menu file and options to investigate
the problem when the Excel options dialog appears select the add-ins tab from the left hand menu
to uninstall an add-in use the actions function in the panel at the bottom of the page
with the correct software installed it's easy to fix Excel files that have become corrupted
or damaged however there's a few basic things you can do to avoid file corruption in the first
place one always use the correct procedures when working with Excel documents for example
if your Excel file is being processed don't shut down your computer two it's a good idea
to install some trustworthy anti-malware software on your computer and routinely scan the locations
where you store your Excel files three the same goes for your computers never connect
them to a public network and never insert your USB drives into an untrusted machine four make
sure any Microsoft Excel add-ins or plugins come from a reliable source before you install them
on your computer and finally the most important thing to remember is to constantly backup your
Excel files so you can simply retrieve them in the event of corruption well that brings us to
the end of today's video where we've outlined a variety of methods some built into windows and
some external to restore your corrupted files leave any thoughts you have about wondershare
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