Corrupt excel file

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Hervinder - 13 Jun 2006 11:55 GMT

I have a very important file on excel. This morning i tried to open it and
i'm getting an error message saying

Errors were detected in file 'C:\Documents and Settings\HSingh\Desktop\CLD
2nd qtr 06 report-30jun06.xls'
The following is a list of repairs:

Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel
attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been
lost or corrupted.

I then have an open to just close the dialog box and all the worksheets are
blank with no values at all.

I have read the knowledge base article 820712 on this and it states that the
file can be open in previous versions but not in 2003, which is what i am
using. I dont have any previous versions of excel on my machine.

Is there anything i can do to recover the data on the spreadsheet?

Thank you
Hervinder

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Graham Whitehead - 13 Jun 2006 12:31 GMT

So are you saying that it may be possible to open this file in excel 2000?
Becasue if that is so then you could email me the file, I can open it in
excel 2000, save it with another filename and email you it back.

>I have a very important file on excel. This morning i tried to open it and
> i'm getting an error message saying
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> Thank you
> Hervinder

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Beege - 13 Jun 2006 13:01 GMT

You can download "OpenOffice" from OpenOffice.org. Its free. And its
spreadsheet "Calc" may be able to open your file and then re-save it as
another .xls file. May be fixable...

Beege

>I have a very important file on excel. This morning i tried to open it and
> i'm getting an error message saying
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> Thank you
> Hervinder

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