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    How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    when opening the excel document i get an error.

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    What is its cause and how to fix it? How do I access my file?
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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won’t Open?

    Welcome to the forum.

    There is nothing you can do except find a recent backup and go from there.

    There are apps out there that claim to fix corrupt files: you could try them, but I doubt that they will work.
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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won?t Open?

    doesn't sound too promising...
    I read an article on this topic, there are many recovery methods, but all of them are somewhat complicated.
    So, it shows on the example of Word, the method of recovery using the program itself. Is there such a function in Excel?
    PS. I am afraid that I will not lose my file at all.
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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    You could try downloading (free) LibreOffice and see if you could open it in that. Does it have macros?

    Or you could try Google sheets. Or Apple Numbers. All depends on what you have readily accessible.

    If it's not got sensitive data, you could try uploading it here and see if anyone can extract anything from it.
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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    So, it shows on the example of Word, the method of recovery using the program itself. Is there such a function in Excel?
    Excel will usually offer to try and recover a file if it thinks it can. The message you have is a bit more blunt so I suspect not.

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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    Second person today (both coincidentally new members of forums) that I've seen post a link to that particular website...
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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    maybe coincided? I can delete, especially since I can't post active links yet...

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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    I'm not a moderator so nothing to do with me. I just found it interesting.

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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

    Thank you all for your help. The method described here helped me: hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/how-to-fix-damaged-excel-or-word-files-that-do-not-open.htm#plan_11

    Excel has an integrated function Open and repair, which can be used to force the application to restore a corrupted document. Select a file in the Open window, look down at the Open button and click on the black arrow to bring out the nested menu. From the list of possible actions, choose Open and repair.

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    Re: How to Fix Damaged Excel File That Won't Open?

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