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Why Does My CSV Open Wrong in Excel?
Everything in one column, accented characters mangled, leading zeros gone. Excel guesses at CSV files and guesses badly. Here is how to make it stop.
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Excel
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How to Recover a Corrupted Word or Excel File
Open and Repair works more often than people expect. Here is the full order to try, and an honest account of when a damaged file is genuinely unrecoverable.
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Excel Opens Blank or Grey With No Spreadsheet
The window opens, the ribbon is there, the sheet area is empty grey. Usually a hidden window or a DDE setting, not a damaged file.
7 min read
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Why Is My Excel File So Large?
A spreadsheet with a few thousand rows should not be 40MB. Find out what is actually inflating the workbook and strip it out without losing data.
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