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Corrupted Excel File
A password protected excel file was saved as a back up in an external hard drive. Thereafter on attempting to open it using the correct password it says "The file is corrupted and cannot be opene...
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Nikolino
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I had the same thing happen to a file that I've been using for years. Additionally, it happened to all the backup files of the same spreadsheet. Everyone got corrupted on my laptop. Furthermore, my PC is networked with the laptop and all the versions and backups of that same file also got corrupted on the PC.
Solution: I accessed that same corrupted file on One Drive using the web excel software. It opened the file perfectly. i copied and pasted the One Drive spreadsheet to a new spreadsheet on my laptop and saved it as a new file. Then I deleted all backups of the original file on the laptop and PC.
All was fine. No more corrupted files....... until I added back in the password protection to the file and then got immediate corruption. I then went through the same procedure and did not add the password protection.
Very dissapointing but I still have my file!
THANK YOU!!!!!
