Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Error resolving 'Format data invalid' in Excel

Microsoft Excel allows you to implement VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and develop custom solutions. In order to use VBA in Excel, you must use the language and terminology of several buildings that could interact with the application. While naming Visual Basic modules in a workbook, you must be sure to follow the naming conventions. Failure to do so could result in errors when opening the workbook. However, if there is similartype of behavior even if VBA modules have been the name correctly, it is likely that the workbook is corrupted. To restore these damaged workbooks, use the backup file of recent commercial or Excel Repair tools available to scan and repair the corrupted workbook.

As an example, there may be "invalid data format" error message when performing activities such as:

. Opening or closing an Excel workbook
. Running VBA macros
. Removing a VBA module
. Exporting a VBAmodule editor
. Trying to change the text in VBA module
. Starting the Visual Basic Editor

Case

Possible reasons for "invalid data format" error to occur are:

Do you have a used a VBA module that has been nominated as "Dir" or "dir". These names are reserved and should not be used to name or give any VBA module errors.
You are trying to open an Excel workbook damaged.

Solution

Test error resolution bythe following steps:

You can not remove or rename form of Visual Basic. So, to recover from such situations, you should open the workbook and copy all of its contents into a new workbook with a different name. You can then delete the folder of work involved.

If the incorrect name of the module is not the problem, restore the corrupted workbook. To do this, try opening the file with the 'Open and Repair'. If it fails, you can use third-party Excel recovery software. These are powerful excelrepair applications, which could make effective excel file repair using advanced scanning algorithms and secure. These tools provide the user interface and interactive way, without technical knowledge is required.

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