[robert79]

I have a xls file which I can open in excel 2003 but when i try to open it in excel 2007. The message below appears "Excel found unreadable content in work.xls. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbookm, click yes."

 

After I clicked yes...the content displayed is unreadable. Below is the log file.

 

Microsoft Office Excel File Repair Log

Errors were detected in file 'E:\work.xls'

The following is a list of repairs:

Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been lost or corrupted.

 

How do I solve this problem.

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Hello robert79,

 

 

When Microsoft Excel detects a corrupted workbook upon opening, it automatically starts File Recovery mode and attempts to repair the workbook. If File Recovery mode doesn’t start, try using this manual process to recover your workbook:

 

Click File > Open.

 

Click the location and folder that contains the corrupted workbook.

 

In the Open dialog box, select the corrupted workbook.

 

Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.

 

 

 

 

To recover as much of the workbook data as possible, pick Repair.

 

If Repair isn’t able to recover your data, pick Extract Data to extract values and formulas from the workbook.

 

If neither automatic nor manual repair works, there are some recovery methods that might help salvage your data. You can also take some preventive measures to avoid losing your work by automatically saving a backup copy of your workbook or creating a recovery file from time to time.

 

For more go here--> Repair Excel

Edited by Dashing star, 30 June 2015 - 05:58 AM.

[Dashing star]

Hello robert79,

 

 

When Microsoft Excel detects a corrupted workbook upon opening, it automatically starts File Recovery mode and attempts to repair the workbook. If File Recovery mode doesn’t start, try using this manual process to recover your workbook:

 

Click File > Open.

 

Click the location and folder that contains the corrupted workbook.

 

In the Open dialog box, select the corrupted workbook.

 

Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.

 

 

 

 

To recover as much of the workbook data as possible, pick Repair.

 

If Repair isn’t able to recover your data, pick Extract Data to extract values and formulas from the workbook.

 

If neither automatic nor manual repair works, there are some recovery methods that might help salvage your data. You can also take some preventive measures to avoid losing your work by automatically saving a backup copy of your workbook or creating a recovery file from time to time.

 

For more go here--> Repair Excel

Edited by Dashing star, 30 June 2015 - 05:58 AM.

[Dashing star]

Its been a long time you did not update your post...

 

You still need assistance?

 

Regards

[trampadoo]

When an Excel file is corrupted, then you can try several methods to recover it:

 

1. First of all, you can try to repair the file manually in Excel, as follows:

 

(1) On the File menu, click Open.

(2) In the Open dialog box, select the file you want to open, and click the arrow next to the Open button.

(3) Click Open and Repair, and then choose which method you want to use to recover your workbook.

 

You may find more information about this at:

 

http://office.micros...A001034656.aspx(for Excel 2003)

http://office.micros...7017.aspx?CTT=1(for Excel 2007)

http://office.micros...2840.aspx?CTT=1(for Excel 2010)

http://office.micros...9554.aspx?CTT=1(for Excel 2013)

 

2. If method 1 fails, there are still several methods to recover your Excel file manually with Excel, including writing a small VBA macro, as below

 

http://office.micros...1#_Toc337637262

 

3. Third, there are also free tools from third-parties that can open and read Microsoft Excel files, for example,

 

3.1 OpenOffice at http://www.openoffice.org. This is a very famous open source project that is designed to support Office file formats, including Excel files. The software can run under Windows.

 

3.2 KingSoft Spreadsheets at http://www.kingsofts...fice/free-excel. This is a free Windows tool that can open Excel files. 

 

Sometimes when Excel fails to open your file, these tools may be able to open it successfully. If that is the case, then after the Excel file is opened, you can just save it as a new file which will be error-free.

 

4. For xlsx files, they are actually a group of files compressed in Zip file format. Therefore, sometimes, if the corruption is only caused by the Zip file, then you can use Zip repair tools such as WinRAR at http://www.rarlab.comto repair the file, as follows:

 

4.1 Assuming the corrupt Excel file is a.xlsx, then you need to rename it to a.zip 

4.2 Start WinRAR, go to "Tools > Repair Archive" to repair a.zip and generated a fixed file a_fixed.zip. 

4.3 Rename a_fixed.zip back to a_fixed.xlsx 

4.4 Using Excel to open a_fixed.xlsx. 

 

 

There may still be some warnings when opening the fixed file in Excel, just let ignore it and Excel will try to open and repair the fixed file. If the file can be opened successfully, then you can just save the contents into another error-free file.

 

5. If all above methods do not work, then you may try third-party tools such as DataNumen Excel Repair at

 

https://www.datanume...m/excel-repair/

 

It provides a free demo version so that you can try to see if the data you want can be recovered or not.

 

Good luck!