

I've been using Excel since Office 2001 and I've never come across a version as bad as this current one. But Excel's recently opened option doesn't show it at all. The get info box says the file was most recently opened today when of course it didn't open. All without success.Ĭrazily, Excel's 'quick look' function works and I can see the file with all tabs and all data intact but can't do anything else from this option like a save as or export. xls, changed application to open to first Numbers then OpenOffice. Zipped the file and tried to open unzipped. Dialogue box says again it may be corrupted or read only and then laughably it might be on a server that isn't responding. I have permission to read and write (it's my own fil after all) and it hasn't been encrypted Then there's a message saying it may be read-only or encrypted.

I opened similar, created at same time, both before and after attempting to open this one with no problem. The file was created in Excel six weeks ago and has been opened since with no problems.

Dialogue boxes when attempting to open queried validity or extension name. Over the past three months I've saved thousands of files like this. When upgrading from Office 2011 every time I opened a. I'm using MacOS Catalina 10.15.6 & Excel for Mac 16.4. I'm being driven crazy by not being able to open one file from thousands.
