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When trying to open an Excel spreadsheet in Office 2007/2010, you may come across the following error message:
"Excel found unreadable content in '[filename].xlsx'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes."
On clicking ‘Yes’, any of these scenarios may occur:
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You may encounter ‘Excel file unreadable content error’ due to corruption of complete Excel file or corruption of one or more objects in the file.
Following are some workarounds you can try to resolve this error:
See this: How to recover data from corrupt or damaged Excel file 2010 & 2007?
Try to open your '.xlsx' file by making it 'read-only'. Follow these steps:
Some users have reported that they were able to open their Excel file, following the ‘Excel unreadable content’ error, by simply moving the file to a different folder.
At times, it is seen that installing the 'Visual Basic' component of MS Office 2010 resolves the ‘Excel found unreadable content 2010’ error message. To do so, follow these steps:
Now check if the issue has been resolved or not.
If none of the above-mentioned workarounds work for you, using professional Excel repair software such as Stellar Repair for Excel can come in handy. The software repairs corrupt MS Excel sheets without modifying their original content and formatting. It can repair single or multiple Excel (XLS/XLSX) files in a few simple steps.
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I have exactly the same problem - and it appeared suddenly and only for 2 excel files.
I open my file without any problem in the morning, I copy paste some new data then save... as I always did it before. Now if I want to re-open the file, I get an error message. What really weird is, is that one of my colleagues can open it... so he can save it under another name and send it back to me... and then, it works!!
It's a real pain in the*** as it now happens every day! I don't know why my colleague can read it and not me
to answer the previous question, no, it does not happen with all files.... and also, it used to work so far (I changed nothing)
the real message is: "Excel found unreadable content in 'TEMP_XXX_2014_03.xls' (name of my file). Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click yes"
Eric
Pl solved
Dipak Dutta
I know this may not be an ideal solution, but I was able to fix exactly same error message by saving with other name.
Barbara
Tried it on numerous file and all so called repaired files show no data whatsoever
Michael Gallagher
Kartik
Hi,
We understand the inconvenience caused to you.
As per our records, our experts are assisting you on your email. Please reply to them in order to get resolve the issue.
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Stellar Data Recovery
The process seems to go on endlessly without actually ever coming to an end. Sat with a Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheet (.xls) file for a very long time with no suceess at the end.
Dr Ruchir Mishra
Abdul Majid
Hi Dr. Ruchir,
We understand that software is taking long time to complete the repair process.
Please let us know the below details to analyze the situation:
1. Reason for the corruption of excel file.
2. Is this file getting copied to another location. In case file is not getting copied than there might be bad sectors in the drive.