How can I fix a sharepoint excel file that opens in gibberish to normal text?

Anonymous
2023-01-17T12:59:35+00:00

We are using shared reports from a sharepoint having the convenience of accessing these reports via browser. But a few days ago, certain users are having problems with these reports, because when they access them, they see gibberish rather than normal text. This does not happen when its opened on the desktop app, only when its opened on the browser.

How can I fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-24T13:22:16+00:00

    Please contact your admin/IT department create a support ticket via Microsoft 365 Admin Center> Support> New service request.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-24T13:15:09+00:00

    Any update to this at all? We can't just change the font since we have so many sheets and they all have multiple tabs, etc.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-07T14:42:29+00:00

    Same fix for us. Change the font from Arial to anything else and the problem is fixed

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-06T01:56:31+00:00

    After trial and error we came across this solution at my org.

    Clear cache for all browsers and then restart computer.

    From my and my peers testing you should find the doc restored.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T16:08:07+00:00

    We have this issue too and we changed our fonts from Ariel and it looks fine now. It looks like encoding issue for Arial font.

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