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Spreadsheet Corrupts Upon Saving
Starting this week, a specific spreadsheet I've been using for years is now corrupting when I save it. First it'll prompt "We found a problem with some content. Do you want us to try to recover as mu...
Seems similar to this, worth trying the following to fix:
- Manually Remove Problematic Objects
- If repair logs consistently reference /xl/drawings/drawing1.xml, the issue lies in one or more embedded objects.
- You can unzip the .xlsx file (since it is a ZIP archive) and manually delete or replace the corrupted XML file.
- Copy Data to a New Workbook
- Copying all data (without drawings) into a fresh workbook to eliminate corruption.
- For macro-enabled workbooks, this may require re-importing VBA projects separately.
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