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Oct 19, 2017

Excel file format

Need assistance with viewing an excel .xlsx file format for excel 2016. I get an error saying excel cannot open the file format or file extension because its not valid.

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  • Haytham Amairah's avatar
    Haytham Amairah
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    Hi,

     

    If you have received that workbook by Email, then follow the below link to work around this issue:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/928979/error-message-when-you-try-to-open-a-workbook-that-you-receive-in-an-e

     

    Else

    Your workbook might be corrupted

    So please follow the below link to work around that:

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Repair-a-corrupted-workbook-153A45F4-6CAB-44B1-93CA-801DDCD4EA53

     

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