When using MS Excel to store data for business purposes, it is important that the data is available when needed. However, corruption errors in an Excel file may prevent you from accessing the data and affect business continuity. While Excel provides the built-in ‘Open and Repair’ command to fix corrupted files, it may fail to repair a severely corrupted workbook. In that case, you can use Microsoft suggested workarounds to recover data from a corrupted workbook. Applying all the workarounds can take time and may result in some data loss. A better alternative is to use an Excel file repair