How Do You Recover A Corrupt Excel File?
Microsoft has some great tips for recovering data from Excel files that won’t open or are otherwise corrupt although they are sometimes a little difficult to try. See the tips section for them. You may want to try them first, or a combination with the list below. • Close down Excel, re-open it and try to open the file again. • If this doesn’t work, restart the computer, open up Excel and try to open the file again. • If this doesn’t work, delete the contents of your c:\windows\temp directory then reboot. Try again. • If this doesn’t work, open Excel in Safe Mode. This will disable VBA and Add-ins. • Click on Start then Run then enter (including the quotes and the /s extension): “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\excel.exe” /s [“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\excel.exe” /s (for Excel 2002, Office XP, click cancel if the MS Office Installer starts, Excel in safe mode will still start)]. • Try to open the file. • If this doesn’t work, be sure to scan the file for viruse
