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Excel Spreadsheet Corrupt When Copying Data to a Document

Recovery to your MS Excel file if it gets corrupted when copying data to a document

Author: Addison Philip

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Microsoft Office Excel is a popular spreadsheet application that allows you to create, edit and store professional spreadsheets. The application is competent to perform different calculations and formulas. At times, you observe your Excel spreadsheet displaying unexpected characters, which indicates that the file is corrupt. To restore such file, you need to use your backup or scan the file using advanced Excel Recovery application.

For an instance, consider that you are using Microsoft Office XP SP3 and upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 SP 1. After this, you perform following sequence of steps:

- You open a spreadsheet containing large amount of data and perform some updates
- Without saving the changes, you then copy some cells
- You then open a Microsoft Word document and paste the copied cells
- You then close the opened spreadsheet after saving the changes made

After performing the above steps, the next time when you open the spreadsheet, it appears to be corrupted. The file shows cells filled with weird characters. Also, the equations and functions applied are all gone. This behavior is specific when you paste the contents of spreadsheet to a Microsoft Word document and not any other application file. When you try to duplicate the behavior by closing the spreadsheet before pasting the copied contents to the document, no problem is encountered.

Cause

Such types of issues are usually observed due to system errors. In this case, Microsoft Word is interacting unexpectedly with Microsoft Excel and causing file to get corrupt.

Solution

A corrupted Excel spreadsheet can be repaired by following any of these methods:

- Try to open the corrupted spreadsheet using ‘Open and Repair’ feature.

- Save the file in HTML format, reopen and save it again in Microsoft Excel Workbook format.

- Save the file in XML spreadsheet format, reopen and save it again in Microsoft Excel Workbook format.

- If you are using a chart that is linked to the corrupted file, you can try extracting the data using a macro.

- Scan and repair the damaged Excel spreadsheet using a powerful excel repair utility. Excel Recovery applications are advanced products that use effective scanning algorithms to analyze and repair the corrupted Excel file.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a completely reliable tool to scan and repair corrupted Excel files. The application is compatible with Microsoft Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is a non-destructive repair excel tool that safely restores all file objects including macros, charts, tables, hyperlinks, images, functions, formulas and others.

About Author

Addison Philip work as a freelancer and researcher of xls repair & repair excel file software.
http://www.repair-excel-file.com/

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Excel Spreadsheet Corrupt When Copying Data to a Document