Nov 13, 2018 - Download for PC Download for Mac. Quick Fixes to 'Excel Cannot Open the File.xlsx' Error on Office. Change the Excel File. On the File menu or the Microsoft Office button, click Open. 2016-06-17 17:27:41. After re-installing office 2016, creating new excel files with and without passwords, macro’s, data, formatting etc. It turned out to be a recently added printer, pointing to an address not reachable from my current location.

**Updated 1/13/2016, see Current Status section** Issue: You have Mac Office 2016 installed and want to open documents from SharePoint (2010, 2013 or SharePoint Online), instead of opening the document in the Office application (like Word or Excel) the web editor is started. Or if you have SharePoint 2010 or 2013 without Office Web Apps installed then you get an error: 'A Microsoft SharePoint Foundation compatible application could not be found to edit the document.' Workaround: If the document opens in Office Web Apps you can pick to 'Open in Word' or 'Open in Excel' which will start the rich client application and allow the document to be edited. If Office Web Apps is unavailable, you can open the document directly from the rich client application by using the File  Open menu and then navigating to the document library and selecting the document to open, or you can use the most recently used documents list in the rich client application.

In SharePoint Online you can work around this issue by looking at the preview popup window for the document, then picking the 'Open in Word' (or other office app) from the popup menu. Current Status: The product group wants to address this issue, a fix for SharePoint 2013 was shipped in the March 2016 update for SharePoint 2013, there is no fix planned for SharePoint 2010, also SharePoint online has a workaround right now (see above).

Symptoms When an Excel, Word or PowerPoint document is downloaded via Google Chrome, Office 2010 refuses to open the file with the error message 'The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.' Downloading with other browsers works without issue. Cause Office 2010 introduced a feature called, which prevents documents from being opened if they are determined to be from an unknown source. Visual studio for mac live player. Unfortunately, this appears to designate files downloaded by Chrome as unknown. Resolution • Follow the steps in this.