https://www.easyofficefix.com/categories/fixes/Recent content in Fixes on EasyOfficeFixHugoen-usTue, 27 Oct 2026 07:45:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/csv-garbled-characters-excel-encoding/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:45:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/csv-garbled-characters-excel-encoding/Excel turns é into é and shows boxes instead of text when you open a UTF-8 CSV. Here is why the file has no encoding tag, and how to import it correctly.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/powerpoint-closes-immediately-on-open/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:46:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/powerpoint-closes-immediately-on-open/PowerPoint flashes open and shuts down before a single slide appears. The five causes worth testing in order, and how to tell whether the deck itself is damaged.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/excel-file-wont-open/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:30:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/excel-file-wont-open/Excel refuses to open the workbook and offers to repair it. Seven steps that work, in order, including the two that can destroy a recoverable file.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/word-document-corrupted/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/word-document-corrupted/Word says the document is corrupt. These four methods recover more text than the built-in repair, including one that skips Word's validation.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/powerpoint-repair-loop/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/powerpoint-repair-loop/PowerPoint repairs the deck, opens it, then asks again next time. The loop almost always comes from one of four causes, and three are fixable in minutes.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/we-found-a-problem-with-some-content/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/we-found-a-problem-with-some-content/That Excel message does not mean the workbook is corrupt. One part failed validation, and Excel will tell you which one. Here is how to read the log and fix it.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/recover-unsaved-word-document/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/recover-unsaved-word-document/Word closed and you never saved. The text is probably still on disk. Here is every place Windows and Word keep a copy, in the order most likely to work.https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/excel-file-locked-for-editing/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.easyofficefix.com/posts/excel-file-locked-for-editing/Nobody else has the workbook open, yet Excel says someone does. The lock is a small hidden file, and clearing it takes about ten seconds.