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Thread ID: 30067 2003-02-09 19:52:00 Microsoft Excel Problem McCauley (2360) Press F1
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119760 2003-02-09 19:52:00 I am having trouble retrieving a document created in Excel '97 as an Excel Worksheet. When I try to open it a message advises the file format is invalid. This happens when trying to open it on the same machine on which it was created or on another machine running Excell 2000 McCauley (2360)
119761 2003-02-09 20:13:00 Bad news, I think the worksheet has been corrupted. Something may have gone wrong during the save, or it could be a disk problem.

For important files, under the save options, us "always create backup copy" so you always have a spare.

There are apps that will try to recover it, but they all cost.

Also, one other long shot is to use another worksheet and external references to grab the values out of the worksheet, but you won't get formulae.

robo.
robo (205)
119762 2003-02-09 20:19:00 There are sevral excel file recovery tools

www.repair.excel-file.com/
www.excelfix.com/

there are more than theses two - try a google search
dagon (1357)
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