How to repair Corrupt MS Excel file
How to repair Corrupt MS Excel file? I am using MS Excel 2007 but my Excel file got corrupt due to virus infected. I have crucial important data file corrupt, but how to get back data from corrupt Excel file. Please help me.
July 19th, 2015 2:04pm

Have you tried opening via the "open and repair" option?

WikiHow Link demonstrating this:  http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-a-Corrupt-Excel-File

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July 19th, 2015 3:08pm

Hi maximiliansummers,

You can repair a corrupted workbook manually by these steps:

  1. Click the Microsoft Office Button Office button image, and then click Open.
  2. In the Open dialog box, select the corrupted workbook that you want to open.
  3. Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.
  4. Do one of the following:
    To recover as much of the workbook data as possible, click Repair.
    To extract values and formulas from the workbook when an attempt to repair the workbook is not successful, click Extract Data.

To get more information please refer to this link:

https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Repairing-a-corrupted-workbook-7abfc44d-e9bf-4896-8899-bd10ef4d61ab

Hope it's helpful.

Regards,

Emi Zhang
TechNet Community Su

July 20th, 2015 9:37pm

Download OpenOffice and try to open the file using it. Sometimes it works.
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July 21st, 2015 2:30am

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