Damaged Macros Causing Excel File Corruption on Windows/Mac!

Published by Jacob Martin on December 2, 2013

MS Excel spreadsheet file makes the data manipulation and data storing very easy and fast, today any clerical tasks aren’t imagined without excel spreadsheet file. In MS excel file macros dose many important tasks such as charting, automation of formatting and various other important jobs.

Macros are used to execute any created tasks and user can execute that task by simply invoking or calling the created macro. It makes the task execution automatically and fast. But when macros gets corrupted then the container Excel file that contains macros can also gets inaccessible or unreachable. After the corruption user can’t access their stored data and their properties.

Read the given example to know the difficulty or inconveniency of MS Excel file Corruption “consider that you are the manager and use MS excel spreadsheet to store all the important data of your employees and production. You don’t have any backup of your excel file. While working on the excel file suddenly power cut occurs and your system shut down improperly. When power comes and you start your computer and try to open the excel file then it display an error message like ‘Microsoft Excel for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.’ And so due to this error you unable to access your access file and whenever you try to open the excel file this error message will appears.”

In order to repair corrupt file and access your stored data you can use recently created backup of your excel file, by the help of backup you can able to restore the corrupted excel file and its macros. But situation gets difficult when user doesn’t have any latest backup of their file because without any backup file you can’t restore your file and you have to choose another option to access your corrupted ms excel file. If the backup is not available then you can recover your file by repairing it, repairing process is very easy and you can do this task by applying manual method or by using any third party MS Excel file repair tool.

Causes behind the corruption of MS Excel macros

• Due to any malware or virus attack macro gets corrupted.
• It can also gets corrupted when user close the spreadsheet file improperly or during the running process.
• If user shut down the computer improperly.
• Due to hardware and software malfunctioning.
• Due to any kind of system error.

Some Useful Tricks:

• Save your MS Excel files in HTML file format.
• Try to open file in MS Word.
• To access your spreadsheet you can also try Excel default detect and repair tool.
• Try to open file in MS Excel viewer.

Repair Corrupted MS Excel File Manually

Excel 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003

• Close all MS office 2013 programs like Excel, Word, Outlook
• Restart your system

• If you are using 2013 version then apply the given steps:

1. Open control panel and then Programs and Features
2. Right click on Office 2013 and select “Change“
3. First try the quick repair option, and if it doesn’t works then try online repair.

• If you are using 2010 version then apply the given steps:

1. Execute Temp File Deleter tool
2. Open Control Panel and then select Programs and Features
3. Click on Office 2010 and select repair and run option

• If you are using 2007 version then apply the given steps:

1. Click on the Office Button, Excel Options, and Resources
2. Now click the “Diagnose” button.
3. Click the “Continue” button
4. Then click “Run Diagnostics” button.

If all the above given solutions and tricks doesn’t work or unable to recover and restore your corrupted MS Excel file then the corruption is bigger and can only be resolve by applying any third party oracle repair tool. These kinds of tool are very useful and can able to fix all kinds of error because they are programmed very strongly and developed by using latest recovery technology.

Try any MS Excel file recovery tool and recover your corrupted macros and ms excel file without loss of data and the data properties. If you don’t have any technical knowledge then this way is the safest way to recover and restore your corrupted data. it provides very simple user interface that is specially designed to for the normal user, so that any type of user can recover and restore their corrupted MS Excel file.

Steps to Fix Damaged Macros Causing Excel File Corruption:

Step 1: Download the recovery software and after that hit on “OK” button to start the process.

Step 2: To recover the corrupt file, hit on “Select file” button. BY using the “Look in” you can search from particular logical drive.

Step 3: Select the corrupt file from the search list with the help of check box. After that hit on “Select all” and hit on “Start” button to begin the scanning process.

Step 4: As soon as the scanning process completes, you can view your corrupt files.

Step 5: At last, hit on the “Start repair” button to begin the repairing process. Select the perfect location to save your repaired excel file and after that hit on “OK” button.

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