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Issue with Excel - "Excel file format is not valid"

Issue with Excel - "Excel file format is not valid"

flew
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Excel file format is not valid.  Please help as unable to open Excel.

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amara21
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There is a huge number of MS Excel issues and errors that stops users to access their work and waste their time and I am among those users. While I was working a message appears that’s says Excel file is not in a recognized format.

Oh no…Excel file is not recognizing the format, how will I work now. Yeah, the wordings matched with yours. But I found the solutions to fix this issue, you want to know how? Look below:

  1. Utilize the MOC.exe File
  2. Open file from within the Excel
  3. Try disabling the Add-ins

These are just the starters get full information on Excel File Format Is Not Valid.

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