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Corruption of formatting

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Akagi - 07 Jul 2006 17:04 GMT
I have a user that thinks everything must be opened in Word--Pdf's, jpgs,
everything. This is usually not an issue but she also opens up Excel sheets
into word--which is not a problem EXCEPT she then saves the sheet using Word
and this changes all the formatting and makes it impossible for the sheet to
be opened except in word. Trying to open it in Excel gives you a "file format
is not valid" error.

I tried to save the file as RTF and then open it in Excel, but it doesn't
work--it opens but what I have is not usable.

Is there a way to convert it back so it can be opened in Excel and the
formatting will be back to the way it was?

Thanks
Dave Peterson - 07 Jul 2006 17:11 GMT
You may be able to open it in MSWord and copy|Paste what you find into excel.

But lots of stuff will be lost.

Remember to keep lots of backups as long as that user keeps doing this!

> I have a user that thinks everything must be opened in Word--Pdf's, jpgs,
> everything. This is usually not an issue but she also opens up Excel sheets
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> Thanks

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Patricia Shannon - 07 Jul 2006 19:16 GMT
Would it be feasible to protect the sheet so that she can read it, but not
save it?

> I have a user that thinks everything must be opened in Word--Pdf's, jpgs,
> everything. This is usually not an issue but she also opens up Excel sheets
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> Thanks
cschiller1<at>earthlink.net - 07 Jul 2006 21:26 GMT
Kill the user.

> I have a user that thinks everything must be opened in Word--Pdf's, jpgs,
> everything. This is usually not an issue but she also opens up Excel sheets
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> Thanks
 
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