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Excel corrupt files and won't start.
Hi. I'm having loads of issues with Excel. Firstly, I'm getting a file corrupt message no matter whether I try to open a file from my documents or as an attachment. If I send the file to my phone t...
First of all, MS Excel has an inbuilt option "OPEN and REPAIR" to repair the corrupt Excel file. To use it:
- Open MS Excel
- Go to File-> Open
- Select the Excel file which you want to repair
- Choose Open and Repair option from the drop down list
- Now Click on the Repair
Second Solution
Sometimes, the third party plugins also stops to MS Excel files. You can remove these add-ins from MS Excel and to do so:
- Open MS Excel
- Go to File
- Select Options
- Select Add-Ins
- Select COM Add-Ins
- Click GO
- Select the Add-ins which you want to delete
Third Solution
Try to change the Excel file extension. Ex: xls to xlsx
Note: If these solution wont work, then you can take the help of https://support.microsoft.com/.