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Recovery to excel error VBA Project Corruption when edited over network.

Author: Addison Philip

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VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a built-in programming language in Microsoft Excel, using which you can incorporate user-written functions in your spreadsheet. Thus, the use of tool adds flexibility to you Excel files, making them more productive. But sometimes, while using VBA projects in your spreadsheet, you find them corrupted giving unexpected results. Thus, to recover from such situations, you need to use your recent file backup. However, if file backup is unavailable or exists in invalid state, you should use third-party excel file repair applications that are comprehensive products to repair a damaged Excel spreadsheet and its components.

As an example, consider that you have two computer systems (computer A and computer B) connected to a Microsoft File Server and you maintain an Excel workbook using a VBA project on one computer A. You edit the VBA project with computer B, but the next time when you open the Excel workbook, it appears to be corrupted. The VBA project doesn’t exist anymore.

Cause

The Excel file is corrupted due to a network bug. Due to this error, if you edit files over network, it might get corrupted. This particularly happens if you use programs from a Windows XP SP 1 installed client and edit files that reside on Windows 2000 Server system.

Solution

To fix spreadsheet corruption, try following these methods:

• Open the file with ‘Open and Repair’ feature
• Try to save the file in HTML format
• Try saving the file in XML spreadsheet format
• If you have used a chart that is linked to the damaged Excel workbook, you can make use of a macro to extract the possible data
• Restore from backup that should be completely updated and exist in clean state
• Use commercial excel repair tools to repair the damaged Excel workbook effectively and safely

Excel Recovery applications are special purpose tools designed to repair and restore a damaged Excel file in all cases of file corruption. Such utilities embed advanced file repair options, self-descriptive interface, safe data-conduct design and ability to give effective file repair results.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced software that supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It can repair and restore all Excel file contents including macros, formulas, charts, images, functions and others. It has a rich graphical interface and various features to offer. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

About Author

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

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VBA Project Corruption when Edited over Network