Excel Worksheet and backups suddenly get Unreadable Content Message

  < removedPart > Removed Part: /xl/drawings/vmlDrawing1.vml part. (Drawing shape ) </ removedPart >

  </ removedParts >

 

 

As the recovery log suggests, the issue might be with the picture/ Drawing type that you are trying to insert, My best bet is to recreate the worksheet as the issue seems to be with the sheet which is corrupted by the drawings, I tried searching for an answer on the net and most of them suggested to recreate the worksheet, it is difficult to predict until we reproduce the same issue. Perhaps if you can share the workbook, I can have a look at it or the other community users who visit might try different things to resolve your issue

SOLUTION : Recreate the sheet :)

BLACK BARRON

Black Barron, thanks for taking time to respond and thanks for your suggestion

This is what I'm trying to avoid - recreating the sheet by having to manually insert the .jpg files into Comments - a real pain.

Actually, this happened once before (months ago) and that's what I had to do. Now it happened again, and if I spend the time to fix it, I fear it could just happen a 3rd time some day.

Also, all the comments I had that did not have a .jpg inserted are not recreatable.

What frustrates me, is that by virtue of the size of the file before I tell Excel to "recover" seems to be the size that has all the .jpg information still in there, whereas after it recovers the file, discarding the "so-called" unreadable part, the file is MUCH smaller, but has every cell filled with the correct data except for all the Comments that had .jpgs in it or not.

Taking another approach, and I don't have the talent to do this myself, one cell in each row has the name of the jpg file (without the path and the ".jpg" extension) of the image I want to insert into the comment in another cell in that row.  If I could automate this process, the recreation of this spreadsheet would not be so daunting (though I'd still not be able to recover any of the comments that were just text comments - but I'd live with that). I've tried recording a Macro while going through the process, but was unsuccessful. I've set up the column that would contain the images with a blank comment in each cell adjusted to the proper size.  So all I need to automate (after selecting the cell to work on) is:

Right-Click

choose Edit Comment

Right-Click (within the crosshatches)

choose Format Comment

click Colors and Lines

click Color

click Fill Effects

click Picture

click Select Picture (it remembers the most recent path to where my .jpgs are)

type in the file name (which is in another cell on the same row in my spreadsheet) and add ".jpg"

Return

click OK

click OK

and I'm done - move onto the next cell in that column and repeat

Can I somehow automate that?

Otherwise, I'd be glad to share the workbook. How do I get it to you? I don't see where I can attach it in here.

Thank you and anybody else so much for looking at this.

I am having a similar issue (see error message below). I re-created the excel sheet from scratch and halfway through I closed the file and started getting the error message again. I need urgent help on this issue. Are there any tools we can use to fix this?

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Office Version:Excel 2007

Operating System:Windows 7 (on x86)

I have macros that are used to link values from mulltiple sheets to one "exchange file" that holds values between all the other sheets. I get a similar error to that above when trying to call the "exchange file".

However...

Office Version:Excel 2007

Operating System:Vista (on x86)

I do not get any error, and my macros work fine. The macros were initially created in Excel using a Vista machine and then a second set of similar spreadsheets (with the same macros) were created using a Windows 7 machine.

Could it be a Windows 7 and Excel 2007 problem?

I have a similar problem.  I have a web application that allows users to save docs to a NAS server.  The users can save 2007 docs and spreadsheets, but when they try to open them from the application they get the same error you show above.  It happens to all spreadsheets regardless of what the spreadsheet contains. 

i am getting exactly the same problem

: /xl/drawings/vmlDrawing1.vml part is removed.

created a huge spreadsheet and its now corrupt

should send microsoft the bill for the hours spent on it.

Frustrating is an understatement.

recreate the sheet is not a solution...confidence in microsoft software hugely dented again.

Am recieving the same error message when trying to open a workbook with pictures and sames pasted in certain cells.  The issue persists even when opening a backup version of the file from a date I am %100 certain the file was fine.

Am I really going to just put up with completely redoing a workbook every month or so?  This is the second workbook this has happened too, both are being used in similar ways.

Any more recent progress on this issues?

  -Brad

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