Microsoft Excel error, not a valid web Archive.

Microsoft Excel error, not a valid web Archive.

Microsoft Excel error, not a valid web Archive

This error occurs when you open a file that has corrupted. Each application has their signature affix to each file created from them so that the application can easily identify if the file being open belongs to that application. If the file formatting is corrupted, the application won’t identify the file anymore unless the file is repaired.

Since the Microsoft Excel document is in XML format the file is identified as web archive.

Try this solution if it works on your part. Sometimes the problem solves by this method. Here’s how, suing the following steps will guide to do the fixing method.

1. Open your Microsoft Excel Application.
2. Click the Ribbon then Open icon or click File the Open on the menu bar. Open dialog pops-up on the screen.
3. Browse for the file to be open and select. The open button will be enabled.
4. On the open button, you can see an arrow down, just on the right side of the button clicks it and then a pop-up menu appears. Select Open and Repair.

This fix is available to all Microsoft Office applications like Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Power Point and many other applications that are in the package of Microsoft Office.

You can’t find any solution about this if you were going to look it at Microsoft Support site. They do not consider this issue as a bug instead this is caused by a corrupted file or corrupted Microsoft Office documents. Most of this happens from the downloaded file.