excel Reply View Full Discussion (7 Replies)Show Parent Replies Wyn Hopkins MVP Occasionally restarting your computer will help, and opening Excel first before opening the file. If that doesn't work then make a copy of the file and change extension to .xlsb that has been known to help also...
My laptop crashed and probably the HDD corrupted, I tried recovering some important files using a recovery software. I was able to recover the files but they are now not opening. The size of the recovered files is same as the size of original files. I'm getting below error ...
I have installed the Microsoft Office Home and Student 2021. Word is performing well, however Excel will not allow me to open a workbook by double...
you should uninstall the ones that you do not use or you do not use frequently. The reason is that keeping various versions of Office on your PC can result in problems like files opening with the wrong version of Office app like the above Case 2. ...
Every now and then, when I try opening an Excel file, I get a message saying that "Excel cannot open the file 'file.xlsx' because the file format or the file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the fil...
Method 1: Open Excel in Safe Mode The first and foremost solution to fix theExcel file “Cannot Open Clipboard”error is to open Excel in Safe Mode. In many cases, Excel’s Add-ins can restrict the user from opening the clipboard. So, you can simply open Excel in Safe Mode and di...
Follow the solutions provided in this article in order. If you have previously tried one of these methods, and it did not help, please go to the next solution in the list. Note:If you are having problems opening your Excel files after upgrading from Windows 7 to Wind...
Follow the solutions provided in this article in order. If you have previously tried one of these methods, and it did not help, please go to the next solution in the list. Note:If you are having problems opening your Excel files after upgrading from Windows 7 to Wi...
The error can happen opening any Office file type, not just Excel files. For Excel file types, the error says: "Excel cannot open the file [filename] because the file format or file extension is not valid....
I had this issue with trying to open a .xls file that was saved on my laptop hard drive. Solution number 2 (opening the properties and checking the unblock box) allowed Excel 2016 to open the file. I had been searching for hours trying to f...