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Excel - unable to open a file
File in listed in Excel, unable to open, overwriten by a message - " This workbook has been deleted or is not currently available. "
- Well, that is exactly what is going on: the file is no longer there. Excel does not remove items from the recently opened files when a file is deleted. You can right-click the item in the list and choose "Remove from list".
- The file that I cannot open is overwritten by a mressage. " This workbook has been deleted or is not currently available. " It has not been deleted.
Anthomy_Issitt I advise you to double-check. Perhaps the file has been renamed (or really deleted!). Excel does NOT keep track of files that have been renamed or deleted from outside of Excel.
Try this:
- Open a blank workbook
- Save the file as (for instance) "My book 1.xlsx" in any location.
- Close Excel
- Open Windows File Explorer
- Go to where you just saved the file
- Rename the file to (for example) "My book 2.xlsx"
- Now open Excel and click on the File tab. You should see "My book1.xlsx" in the list
- Click it
- You should get the exact same error message
