MS Excel is a frequently used application provided by MS office. This application enables you to perform various operations such as spreadsheets, charts thereby featuring several computation tools and graphics. The previous versions of Excel till excel 2007 used .xls format for performing various operations. But with the commencement of excel 2007, a new set of applications or file system has been introduced which uses .xlsx format for saving the workbooks.

In a practical scenario, when you try to open the excel file by double-clicking on it, it starts normally but thenafter it gives the following error message:

“.xlsx file not found”

The most probable reason of getting this error message is corruption of .xlsx files which can occur due to various reasons such as unpredicted system shutdown, malware attacks, application malfunctioning, missing files and other network issues. Sometimes browser links to the xlsx files also result in this error. In such situations, you will have to verify the spelling of the file and also check whether the file location is correct or not. In case you are making attempts to open a file from recently used list of files, you should get sure if the file has not been deleted, moved or renamed.

          

A series of files having excel extension throws the same “.xlsx file not found” error each time you try to open the file with xlsx extension. As a result of this error, you could not access your crucial Excel files and also encounter problems in performing various tasks. In such situations, you can retrieve your lost data by taking the help of an updated backup. But, if you are not having a valid backup with you, then you will have to take the help of efficient third-party excel repair tools. These tools are highly advanced and uses effective scanning techniques to repair the corrupted excel files and recover your crucial data from almost all data loss scenario.