Pivot table is really a very important feature in Excel 2007. With this feature you can easily summarize the data of a table according to different field names. Table can be easily created by specifying different fields to be viewed and the way of displaying data. On the basis of selected item, MS excel manages all the data and helps you to have a different view of each data. But, sometimes several error messages are encountered while a user tries to open workbook with pivot tables. The main reason of malfunctioning pivot table is the presence of a corrupt workbook or using KPIs which stands for Key performance indicators. For accessing all your important data kept in the workbook, you can take the help of an advanced and updated backup.

          

In some situations, you will find that if you make attempts to access excel 2007 workbook, you may get an error message which says: “"Excel found unreadable content in Book_Name. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?" On clicking ‘yes’, you will get Excel recovery message: "Removed Records: PivotTable report from /xl/pivotCache/pivotCacheDefinition1.xml part (PivotTable cache)". At the same time if you will open .xls workbook in MS sharepoint, you will encounter another error message “"The selected workbook cannot be opened. The workbook may be may be corrupt or in an unsupported file format. Would you like to try and open this file in Excel?" Such situations generally occur due to corruption of MS excel files. However, there are other reasons too responsible for this error such as the existence of one or more of the KPIs in the Current Time Member property.

If the KPIs are having an expression in current time member property, you can very easily combat “Excel found unreadable content in book_name” error by eliminating different expressions from current time member properties. If by using these methods you are still unable to resolve the error, it indicates that it is a case of severe corruption. In such situations you will have to take the help of third-party excel repair tools. Stellar phoenix excel recovery software is a highly advanced tool which uses advanced scanning techniques to repair the corrupt excel files or workbook. With the help of this tool you can easily resolve “Excel found unreadable content in book_name” error as well as other related errors very easily.