Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application which allows you create, edit, as well as organize data in the form of spreadsheets. You may come across excel file corruption due to one other reason. In such situations, you will find the excel files unreadable and face problems in accessing them.

As for example you may come across the following error message while trying to open excel files:

“Cannot find the file or one of its components. Make sure the path and filenames are correct and that all required libraries are available.”

This error generally occurs due to corruption of excel files due to virus attack, network errors, unexpected shutdown, application faults and other similar reasons. With the occurrence of this error, you may face problems in correctly opening the excel files and consequently couldn’t access the contents of file.

Solutions to fix this error:

For resolving “Cannot find the file or one of its components” error you should open the excel file with ‘Open and Repair’ feature. After that save the corrupted excel file in HTML format. You can also take the help of external reference to link to the corrupted excel file. In case a chart is linked with the corrupted file, you should use a macro for data extraction and open the file in MS Word or MS Excel Viewer. You should use MS Excel File Recovery Macro for extracting the lost or corrupted data. If you could not repair Corrupted Excel File and resolve the “Cannot find the file or one of its components” excel error by using the aforesaid methods you should remove the corrupted file and restore it with the help of an update backup.

          

If you are not having a valid backup, you can take the help of third-party excel repair applications. These applications are highly powerful and use advanced scanning algorithms for analyzing, repairing the damaged Excel files. Such tools possess advanced features, automated recovery options. It has self-descriptive and user-friendly interface, so they are easy to use and understand without any prior technical skills. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, and NT and supports excel Recovery for almost all excel versions like 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000.