By Sophia | Last Updated
Excel file corruption could occur without warning, which makes the worksheet unopenable or unreadable. To prevent data loss caused by the unexpected Excel corruption errors, it's a good habit to create a backup of the important Excel file by manually copying or enabling Excel's always create backup function. Besides, you are suggested to learn some effective ways to recover the corrupted MS Excel file. For the recommended methods, here 3 proven ones are shared with you.
Disk error or network error can cause an Excel file corrupt. If the corrupted Excel file is online, you can download it from the Internet to the local disk to check whether the worksheet can be opened normally. When the corrupted Excel file is already on the local disk, you can move it to another hard drive and then try to access it.
Microsoft Excel has embedded some utilities into Excel program to help its users recover the sheet data and Open and Repair is one of those useful utilities. It can repair some small and common corruptions of the Excel file and generally can be found in the Open dialog of Excel. Here takes Microsoft Excel 2016 as an example to show you the detailed steps of applying it.
Step 1: Launch MS Excel app.
Step 2: Access the Open dialog by clicking Open option and Browse button.
Step 3: In the popped-out Open dialog, select the corrupted Excel file firstly. Then click the arrow next to Open button and choose Open and Repair option.
Step 4: A Repair or Extract Data box will be displayed instantly. Just choose Repair option to make Excel recover the corrupted file content as much as possible.
When the ways above don't work, don't be sad, iSunshare Excel Repair Genius is here to help you. Designed with the simple using interface but not simple recovery function, iSunshare Excel Repair Genius is an Excel recovery tool that can fully recover the corrupted .xlsx file of Microsoft Excel 2019/2016/2013/2010/2007. To try this powerful Excel recovery tool, you can follow the short guide below.
Step 1: Install and run iSunshare Excel Repair Genius on your Windows PC.
Step 2: Click Open button to add the corrupted .xlsx file for recovery.
Step 3: Start the file recovery process by hitting Restore button in the side corner.
Step 4: The corrupted Excel file is restored and you can hit OK to close the tips box.
Step 5: Hit Save option to put the recovered Excel file in a safe destination.
Step 6: Click Yes button to check the repaired worksheet or choose No option to continue your usage.
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