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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / January 2006strange problem
Hi, If I don't have the correct Newsgroup for this problem please let me know where to look for this following advice. I'm having a strange problem. I have a floppy disk on which I keep my addresses. I also have other spreadsheets on the same floppy disk. The other spreadsheets are all opening just fine but when I go to open my addresses spreadsheet I get this error reading. EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module EXCEL.EXE at 017f:300d6c1f. Registers: EAX=000000e0 CS=017f EIP=300d6c1f EFLGS=00010202 EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0062bda8 EBP=0062c64c ECX=0000c0c0 DS=0187 ESI=0062c670 FS=50df EDX=00000006 ES=0187 EDI=00000014 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 0f b6 9c 0d 68 f9 ff ff 80 fb ff 0f 84 1a 82 0d Stack dump: 00000000 0062eef4 00000000 005f0031 002a0028 00230020 0023002c 00300023 0030002e 005f0030 00220029 0028005f 0020002a 0028005c 002c0023 00230023 What can I do? This spreadsheet is 5 pages and I would miss it terribly. Thanks in advance, Nutty Nutty, One should never open documents and spreadsheets directly from floppies. Copy to hard drive, open from there. Modify and move back onto floppy... Beege > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks in advance, > Nutty In case it is unclear, Beege's (correct) advice is One should never open documents and spreadsheets directly from floppies. Copy to hard drive, open from there. Modify AND SAVE THEN move back onto floppy USING EXPLORER  SignatureBernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email > Nutty, > One should never open documents and spreadsheets directly from floppies. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Thanks in advance, >> Nutty Thanks Bernard and Beege but that is not the solution. I tried it. I get a similar error reading although the numbers are slightly different. The thing that stumps me is that I can still open the other Excel files on that floppy when transferred to my hard drive, too, but not the addresses file that I need so badly. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Nutty > In case it is unclear, Beege's (correct) advice is > One should never open documents and spreadsheets directly from floppies. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Nutty Excel 2002 onwards has a Repair facility built in - Try it. If no joy then feel free to send me a copy of your file, with a copy of this note and i will try and recover it for you. You need to take the NOSPAM bit out of my email address though. SignatureRegards Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks in advance, > Nutty I am using Excel 97. I guess I can just start from scratch. I have other versions that have far fewer addresses on them but can take it from there. I had never heard of copying the file to the hard drive first. Been doing this wrong for years. Goes to show there is always something more to learn. Thanks, Nutty > Excel 2002 onwards has a Repair facility built in - Try it. > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Thanks in advance, > > Nutty You should never write directly to removable media - This is documented by Microsoft also. It has nothing to do with how many addresses you have. Excel 97 does not have any repair facility, so offer stands if you want me to try and repair it for you. SignatureRegards Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >I am using Excel 97. I guess I can just start from scratch. I have other > versions that have far fewer addresses on them but can take it from there. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >> > Thanks in advance, >> > Nutty Thanks for the generous offer but I am sure family and friends would not appreciate my handing out all their addresses. So I'll have to bite the bullet and just do a lot of reentry. It's not so bad and now I have learned not to save directly to floppy, too. Funny thing is that a lot of programs such as Money, FTW, etc. all have the saves going directly to the floppy as well. Thanks, Nutty > You should never write directly to removable media - This is documented by > Microsoft also. It has nothing to do with how many addresses you have. [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> > Thanks in advance, > >> > Nutty No problem - One other option might be to download the free office suite OpenOffice from www.openoffice.org Its a 70MB download, but the spreadsheet component OpenOffice.Calc is really good at fixing corrupt Excel files that even Excel can't. Regards Ken.................... > Thanks for the generous offer but I am sure family and friends would not > appreciate my handing out all their addresses. So I'll have to bite the [quoted text clipped - 82 lines] >> >> > Thanks in advance, >> >> > Nutty Office programs differ from many other applications in the way they handle writing and saving files. What works fine for other programs doesn't always work well with them. Even though other programs may be able to save directly to floppy without problems, I almost always save to my hard drive and then copy the file to a floppy. Two copies are much better than one. > Thanks for the generous offer but I am sure family and friends would not > appreciate my handing out all their addresses. So I'll have to bite the > bullet and just do a lot of reentry. It's not so bad and now I have learned > not to save directly to floppy, too. Funny thing is that a lot of programs > such as Money, FTW, etc. all have the saves going directly to the floppy as > well. > > You should never write directly to removable media - This is documented by > > Microsoft also. It has nothing to do with how many addresses you have. [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > >> > Thanks in advance, > > >> > Nutty SignatureGary L. Smith Columbus, Ohio Funny thing is I have always saved directly to the floppy with no problems. What "corrupts" a file anyway? Does this mean I could've gotten a virus? Thanks, Nutty > Office programs differ from many other applications in the way they handle > writing and saving files. What works fine for other programs doesn't [quoted text clipped - 82 lines] > > > >> > Thanks in advance, > > > >> > Nutty > Funny thing is I have always saved directly to the floppy with no problems. > What "corrupts" a file anyway? Does this mean I could've gotten a virus? [quoted text clipped - 147 lines] >>>>>>>Thanks in advance, >>>>>>>Nutty Probably not a virus. Floppies are just not as reliable as hard disks. Once the XLS file on the floppy disk has become corrupted copying it back to the hard disk won't help. Of course with my first computer in 1983 the ONLY choice was to save files to a floppy disk. That was long before Excel. The Office.org suggestion may be well worth following. Bill Thanks for the advice. I appreciate all the help from this wonderful Newsgroup. Nutty > > Funny thing is I have always saved directly to the floppy with no problems. > > What "corrupts" a file anyway? Does this mean I could've gotten a virus? [quoted text clipped - 158 lines] > > Bill |
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