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Spreadsheet plugin

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Hi,
I have a corrupt xlsx file and I'm trying to view the contents. Hoping a TC plugin might help me, but on the addons page of the TC website I only find the Excellence and OfficeView plugins, both 32bit-only while i'm using TC 64-bit. Any suggestions on how to proceed - only thing I want is to be able to view the xlsx-content - if not in TC, so be it.
Thanks in advance!
I'm currently using Total Commander Version 10.00 64bit
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xlsx is normally xml based inside a zip, unzipping and using text editor, you should get info in xl\worksheets\ folder.
If you want to see what is inside, you can use ulister
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Re: Spreadsheet plugin

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Hi,
I'm sorry but I think I don't understand what you mean:
- When selecting the corrupt xls and unzipping it in total commander, TC shows an error message "Error in archive file!".
- Trying to unzip it outside of TC with a zip tool like Bandizip, I get the message that the xlsx file is not an archive file.
I'm currently using Total Commander Version 10.00 64bit
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There is also odbc-wlx: plugin to view Access, Excel and DSN files (64bit, 64-bit version requires Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable or 2016) https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=75404

Re other archivers, perhaps renaming the file first to ZIP might work.

If the file is corrupt you may not be able to open it with any program - you could try external tools to convert xlsx 2 csv https://caltechlibrary.github.io/datatools/docs/xlsx2csv/ but again if the file is corrupt you might be out of luck.
F4MiniMenu (Forum) - Open selected file(s) from TC in defined editor(s) - A (minimalistic) clone of F4Menu
Source at GitHub (AutoHotkey). TCSyncComments (copy file comments)
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Re: Spreadsheet plugin

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kodepr wrote: 2022-05-18, 16:05 UTC Hi,
I'm sorry but I think I don't understand what you mean:
- When selecting the corrupt xls and unzipping it in total commander, TC shows an error message "Error in archive file!".
- Trying to unzip it outside of TC with a zip tool like Bandizip, I get the message that the xlsx file is not an archive file.
You understood exactly what i mean.
xlsx corruption can be due to different causes. The one that is the most painful is the one you experience :( Compression corruption.

Give a look here

To use bandizip, just rename extension from xlsx to zip. // it TC say that the zip is corrupted then next step should be used..

You can also try to repair the zip using winrar, powerarchiver or ...
https://www.essentialdatatools.com/products/objectfixzip/
https://www.diskinternals.com/zip-repair/
http://leelusoft.altervista.org/zip2fix.html

and test Excle Repair you should have a free try.
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