subject: Excel Workbook Corruption Issues and the Possible Resolution [print this page] Excel Workbook Corruption Issues and the Possible Resolution
Pivot table is a tool that summarizes the data of an Excel spreadsheet. It is a reporting tool that can sum, sort, total, or count the data stored in a table or spreadsheet independent of its original layout. They are useful in generating a meaningful information from the unorganized data of your spreadsheet. It accomplishes all this by giving you an option to drag-and-drop fields according to your choice. But sometimes, you may encounter errors related to pivot tables while using your Excel workbooks. Due to this, your Excel workbook data becomes inaccessible. To overcome the problem, you need to go for Excel repair through a reliable third-party utility.
For instance, you use MS Excel 2007. When you try to open an Excel workbook, you may come across the following error message:
"Excel found unreadable content in Book_Name. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook."
The application will show you the following recovery report after you click 'Yes':
"Removed Records: PivotTable report from /xl/pivotCache/pivotCacheDefinition1.xml part (PivotTable cache) "
If you try to publish the workbook to Microsoft SharePoint Web Part report page, you may receive another error:
"The workbook that you selected cannot be opened. The workbook may be in an unsupported file format, or it may be corrupt. Would you like to try and open this file in Excel? "
Causes:
The above error messages may be caused if all the given conditions are true-
The pivot table of your workbook may be using KPIs (or Key Performance Indicators).
The KPIs are produced in the Analysis Services Business Intelligence Development Studio.
Some KPIs may be having an expression in the 'Current Time Member' property.
Excel workbook corruption may also lead to such problem. This would prevent you from accessing the precious data of your MS Excel file. In such situation, you may use a backup to restore the lost data. In case of backup unavailability, you should follow the below mentioned resolution steps.
Resolution:
To repair Excel file and recover all the valuable data, delete the expressions from all the 'Current Time Member' properties.
However, if it is a corruption case, then use an efficient Excel file repair software. These software are capable of restoring all the damaged components, such as charts, numbers, tables, engineering formulas etc. from the corrupt Excel spreadsheets.
Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a professional tool that Repairs Excel spreadsheets created in MS Excel 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. It repair corrupt Excel files recovering all their hidden rows, cell comments, embedded functions, coordinates of images etc.
