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Excel File Corrupted After Using Antivirus Software
 

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Microsoft Excel is a specialized application allowing you to edit, analyze and organize the data into tables and lists. Using an excel spreadsheet, you can maintain any sort of information in tabular form, can add macros, apply formulas, perform calculations, and represent the values. But very often, Excel files can get damaged due to events like power outage, virus infection and similar other causes. To restore such files, the best possible solution is to restore from backup. At times, you observe backup as unavailable or invalid. In such situations, you need to use Excel Recovery tools to effectively scan and repair the damaged file.

For an instance, while attempting to close, open or save an Excel workbook, you might fail to do so and receive an error message similar to:

“This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor”

Further, when you click to close the error message, the application quits. However, if you click Details to view the error description, you come across another error message:

“EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0137:3001b693.”

Or

“EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module EXCEL.EXE at 0137:3001b963.”

As additional symptoms, you might observe that if you can open the affected file, you see two worksheets each with visible property as xlveryhidden and named as five asterisks.

Cause

Microsoft Excel workbooks exhibit such behavior if the following conditions are true:

  • You have used an antivirus software to scan and clean the Excel workbook.

  • The Excel file has become corrupted during the cleaning process.


  • Solution

    If you cannot open the corrupted Excel workbook, try following these methods to repair:

  • Try opening the file in Microsoft Word or WordPad.

  • Save the file in HTML format.

  • Open the workbook in Microsoft Excel Viewer.

  • Use a macro to extract chart data.


  • If you can open the file, use these steps:

  • Copy the uncorrupted data to a new workbook.

  • Delete the damaged workbooks.


  • If none of the above solutions seems to work, scan the damaged file using Excel Repair solutions. Fully-competent to recover damaged Excel files, these repair excel software empower you with graphically rich user interface to work with.

    Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is the world's known product to repair and restore damaged Excel workbooks. The software recovers all the file objects which include macros, tables, hyperlinks, functions, charts, images and others. It is a highly powerful excel repair utility built with advanced features. The tool is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.





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