Excel file corrupted during download

From my research, it seems that when trying to open an Excel file from the Excel Online app to the installed Excel program, the file gets changed during this transition and the installed Excel program detects these changes and declares it corrupt. To correct this, follow these steps: 1. Open installed Excel program. 2. Sometimes, an Excel file can also get corrupt during the transfer (copy-pasting) from one location to another. A bad or previously corrupted sector on the hard drive or any other storage unit is another commonly faced reason for a corrupt file. An Excel file can also be corrupt when a wrong formula (leading to an infinite loop) is supplied.  · When downloaded, it opens fine in OpenOffice and derivates, but throws a "File is Corrupt" error on Microsoft Excel, and asks if the user wants to recover as much as it can. When Excel is prompted to recover the file, it does so successfully, and the recovered Excel has all rows and data that is expected for the Excel file.

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On the File tab, click New. Under Available Templates, click Blank workbook. On the File tab, click Options. In the Formulas category, under Calculation options, click Manual. Click OK. On the File tab, click Open. Select the corrupted workbook, and then click Open. The message suggests that the file contents and the file extension don't match. So either it's an XLSX file or the current file on the server is broken in some way. I suggest to try to open the file with a ZIP tool. If that works, it's really an XLSX-format file. Then you can fix the warning by renaming the file. Click File New. Under New, click Blank workbook. Click File Options. In the Formulas category, under Calculation options, pick Manual, and then click OK. Click File Open. Locate and then double-click the corrupted workbook to open it.