Hi All.
I have had a very strange and frustrating issue when opening xlsb files in Excel 2016.
I updated a huge number of workbooks, moving (cutting & pasting) a number of tables (linked to SharePoint) from one sheet to another.
This worked fine (using Excel 2013) and they have been released and are in use.
Subsequently I have found out that approximately 70% of the workbooks don't open in Excel 2016 - before Excel gets to 1% it states that the workbook is corrupt and cannot be repaired. It then closes Excel, repeats this message the next time I open Excel, then the next time I open it it tries to recover the workbook and then states that it is too corrupt to repair.
Strangely enough, I can still open the "corrupt" file in Excel 2013, and if I save the workbook in any other format (xlsm or xlsx), I CAN then open it in Excel 2016. If I then re-save it as an xlsb file, it becomes corrupt n Excel 2016 again.
After a couple of weeks of investigation, I have now also realised that even moving the sheet that the tables were moved to causes the corruption. If I move the sheet to the left and save the workbook, it becomes corrupt when opening. If I move it to the right, it's fine.
If I open the workbook in 2013, delete the sheets with the tables, delete any connections and any names, when I then open the workbook in 2016 it is still corrupt, unless saved as a different format.
If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, thoughts, it would be extremely appreciated. At the moment my only choice is to revert back to the pre-changed models and keep it all as it was.
Thanks in advance.
Russ.