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Cannot open Excel files after upgrading to Windows 11
Hi, I just upgraded to Windows 11. Now, when I opened my excel files in my QNAP NAS, excel showed document recovery message: "Excel has recovered the following files. Save the ones you wish to keep....
Summer_Chow
I found a solution to this curious problem!
This problem seems to appear on machines that have Office (2016 in my case) installed on Windows10 or Windows11 or to newly created User accounts. This problem and solution also applies to Word, and Powerpoint so the solution needs to be applied to all those softwares.
Solution: Open "Excel Options", click on "Trust Center", click on "Trust Center settings", a "Trust Center" windows will open, click on "Protected view", Uncheck all 3 boxes.
Office blocking attachement coming from Outlook without saying precisely why is puzzling.