Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program which comes bundled with MS Office products suite. It offers several powerful features such as graphing tools, pivot tables, calculation and also supports macro programming. Excel is really a very popular tool used in several fields. However, you may see errors while accessing Excel files. One of the most common reasons of such behavior is file corruption.

In some situations you may come across the following error message:

Microsoft Office Excel cannot access the file

On getting this error, Excel will not open as expected and create problems for you. You may face this problem if you are using Internet Information Server as the web server which is using Clear Text for authentication in order to authenticate users.

There are various reasons responsible for this error such as file name or path does not exist, file is being used by another program. You may also get this error if the workbook you are making attempts to save has a similar name as a workbook which is currently open. You will also encounter “Microsoft Office Excel cannot access the file” error if the name of the workbook you are saving is same as another read-only document. In such situations you should save the workbook with a unique name. For resolving this problem you should close all documents in other program and try again to access your excel files.

          

In order to get rid off this problem, you should save IRM-protected Excel workbooks before making attempts to exit Excel. For saving a workbook, you should click Save on the File menu. It is a well-known problem and for solving this problem Microsoft has also provided a hotfix for IE 6 which can be efficiently used by the users of MS Excel. If all these methods fail, you should format your system and restore the lost data by using a valid backup. However, if you are not having a backup with you or if it is present but corrupt then you will have to use third-party excel repair tools. These third-party excel repair tools are built with highly advanced techniques and so it successfully repairs all damaged excel files. Moreover, these tools has extremely user-friendly and interactive interface which allows even non-technical users to easily operate it.