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Celtismar
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Aug 09, 2025

Corrupted Excel file ? / Fichier corrompu ?

Corrupted Excel file? Hello I had just finished my Excel file (two hours of work) saved on OneDrive when suddenly the file screen went black. When I tried to open my file saved on OneDrive, it didn...
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NikolinoDE
Gold Contributor
Aug 12, 2025

It sounds like your file itself may not be truly damaged in the binary sense — the symptoms fit more with Excel having saved it in a “hidden window” state or with OneDrive leaving a locked/duplicate copy behind.

Maybe you can try this Recovery steps.

Make a local copy and work on that (Rename it to something different (MyFile_recovered.xlsx) and store it somewhere outside your OneDrive folder so sync won’t interfere.)

Open in Excel desktop with visibility reset (Go to File → Options → Advanced → Display → make sure “Show all windows in the Taskbar” is checked.)

Force unhide via VBA if the ribbon option fails (Paste this: ThisWorkbook.Windows(1).Visible = True in VBA Editor)

If it still won’t open normally (Try File → Open → Browse → select your copy → Open and Repair)

Last resort – recover from OneDrive version history (In the OneDrive web interface, right-click the file → Version history)

Hope this helps you a little

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