Recover the corrupted files in Microsoft Excel

Today tip will help you to recover the corrupted files of Microsoft excel. There is no need to use any third party software to manage these types of corrupted files, because Microsoft provides built-in support in Excel to deal with these files in better ways. You can use the SYLK (Symbolic Link) format to restore the corrupted files in previous state.

Follow the given steps to recover the corrupted files in MS excel:

First click on Start button, go to Program then click on Microsoft Excel to run the excel page.

Now go to File menu and click on Open option to open the corrupted file.

Now again go to File menu and click on Save As option to save the file as type SYLK. Click on Save button to continue.

Here if you want to recover the multiple sheets then save each sheet separately as type SYLK.

Click on Yes button when you receive the message “Book2.slk may contain features that are not compatible with SYLK (Symbolic Link). Do you want to keep the workbook in this format?".

Now close the all opened excel files then again go to File menu and click on Open option to open the .slk type file that you saved in previous step.

Now again go to File menu and click on Save As option to save the file as type Microsoft Excel Workbook. Click on Save button to finish the process.