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Excel: Edit the XML inside an XLSX file
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An Excel XLSX file is a zip archive containing several XML files. I tried to extract all the XML files, and edit using an XML editor. That's because I have to change 20+ connections to point to a different server. When I open the edited archive in Excel, it refuses the changes and repairs the file.…
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xl\connections.xml
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Fix for: Excel: Edit the XML inside an XLSX file
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How are you going about doing the editing? I would suggest not fully extracting the file, but instead, just opening the archive in 7-zip. Then, find the file you want to edit, choose "edit", then save it and 7-zip should automatically replace it in …
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