When you use Microsoft Excel to open a corrupt Excel xls or xlsx file, you will see various error messages, which may be a bit confusing to you. Therefore, here we will try to list all possible errors, sorted according to their occurring frequency. You can use our Excel recovery tool DataNumen Excel Repair to repair the corrupt Excel file. Below we will use ‘filename.xlsx’ to express your corrupt Excel file name.
- Excel cannot open the file ‘filename.xlsx’ because the file format for the file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file. (Error 101590)
- Excel cannot open this file. 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.
- The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.
- This file is not in a recognizable format.
- Excel file is not in a recognizable format.
- Excel found unreadable content in <filename.xslx>.
- ‘filename.xls’ cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding.
- Microsoft Excel has stopped working.
- The converter failed to open the file.
- The converter necessary to open this file cannot be found.
- We found a problem with some content in ‘filename.xlsx’. Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes.
- Sorry, we couldn’t find filename.xlsx. Is it possible it was moved, renamed or deleted?