subject: Network Connection Failure Causing Excel Spreadsheet Corruption [print this page] MS Excel spreadsheets today are the most important part of any small or large organization as they store important financial records and various other valuable informations of the organization. Since it stores vital information, and may be accessed by many people, at different points of time, it is saved on a network drive. However, when you save an Excel spreadsheet on a network drive, it may sometimes get corrupt. This may happen if, while saving the file on the network there is some problem with the network connection.
Owing to corruption, the spreadsheet may not open, leading to data inaccessibility. In such circumstances, retrieving your data is most important, for which, you can use a healthy backup file. And, in case the backup is not available, or it does not help, then you can simply use excel repair software to retrieve your data from the corrupted spreadsheet.
Picture a situation You saved an Excel file on the network drive of your system, a few days before. On trying to access the file from the network drive, you receive the following error message:
"Cannot access read-only document "
The Excel spreadsheet would not open after the above mentioned error message. Consequently, you may not be able to access the data stored in the spreadsheet.
Cause:
Network connection problems while saving the file onto the network drive.
Resolution:
In most cases, when an Excel spreadsheet gets corrupted, it does not open. However, you can use 'Open and Repair' tool present in Excel to open the spreadsheet and to access your data. To use this tool, follow these steps:
Start MS Excel and click 'Open' on the 'File' menu.
Choose the file that you want to open in the 'Open dialog' box.
Click 'Open and Repair' by clicking the arrow on the 'Open' button.
Then click 'Repair' when promoted to repair the corrupted spreadsheet.
However, if you fail to open the document even after using 'Open and Repair' tool, then the only way to retrieve your data is to repair excel file using an efficient excel repair software that scans and repairs the corrupted spreadsheet using powerful repair algorithms. The excel repair software should ensure complete restoration of the spreadsheet without making any changes in the original settings and contents of the file. Also, the excel repair tool should have intuitive graphical user interface that makes file restoration easy to understand and use.
