Excel won't open but Word can read

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Debbie - 21 Nov 2005 19:37 GMT

I have Office XP professional, all updates are current.
After finishing a mail merge document on my Word program, I now cannot open
my workbook in Excel. I receive the error message "file format is not
valid." I have gone back into Word and it can still read all the data.
How do I open my Excel?

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Chip Pearson - 21 Nov 2005 19:40 GMT

Did you open and save the Excel document within Word? This will
render it unreadable by Excel.

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Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
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>I have Office XP professional, all updates are current.
> After finishing a mail merge document on my Word program, I now
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> the data.
> How do I open my Excel?

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Debbie - 21 Nov 2005 22:25 GMT

I'm not sure, somtine the fingers work faster than the brain. It still shows
up in it's folder as an excel doc. Is there any way to read or restor it?

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> Did you open and save the Excel document within Word? This will
> render it unreadable by Excel.
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> > the data.
> > How do I open my Excel?

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