{"id":4408,"date":"2021-11-10T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=4408"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:52:16","slug":"how-can-repair-corrupt-excel-file","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/how-can-repair-corrupt-excel-file\/20095.html","title":{"rendered":"How Can Repair Corrupt Excel File?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, I have a user who was working on an Excel 2007 file from a thumbdrive.. all of a suddem the file will not open and generates the following error:<br \/>\n&#8220;Excel cannot open the file &#8216;filename.xlsx&#8217; because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file. (OK)&#8221;<br \/>\nI hit Ctrl-Shift-i to get the code for that error (101590)<br \/>\nAny ideas how to repair?<br \/>\nI have tried the following to no avail:<br \/>\n&#8211; Open and Repair tool<br \/>\n&#8211; Opening with OpenOffice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}