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Using Outlook 2010, is there a way to save the Excel formatting from the original .xlsx file without having to save in .xls format?

In a number of the MS Excel files I open that are in the *.xlsx format are not opening correctly and I get a warning "Excel found unreadable content in '*.xlsx'.  Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?  If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes."

If I do open the workbook, the formatting is lost on a number of things (print area, etc).  Saving as a *.xls file has been a fix, but is there a way to save the formatting from the original *.xlsx file?  Thank you
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Is it really a XLSX file? That is, can you rename it to .ZIP and see the content (some folders and files)?
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This excel file has a .xlsx file extension. Once i renamed it as a zip and extracted the contents, it had about 4 sepearate folders of doc properties and workbook html settings. It wouldn't allow me to open the file that way.
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