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Shakeel Ahmad - 03 Apr 2008 16:30 GMT

I have five Excel files which contain the records of my previous 4 years
Business matters. Suddenly yesterday when I opned one of my files I received
the following messege.
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The file is not in recognizable formate.

if you know the file is from another program which is incompatible with
Microsoft Excel, click Cancel, then open the file in its original
application. If you want to open the file later in Microsoft Excel, save it
in a format that is compatible, such as text format.
If you suspect the file is damaged, click help for more information about
solving the problem.
If you still want to see what text is contained in the file, click OK. Then
click finish in the text Import Wizard.
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I am sure these are Excel files Because I have been working in these files
for more than 4 years. If the files does not work, it will be a great loss
for me.

Please someone help. I am using Office XP and windows xp.

Best Regards,
Shakeel Ahmad.

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Pete_UK - 04 Apr 2008 00:18 GMT

Some people have been able to recover "corrupted" Excel files by
opening them in OpenOffice - it is available as a free download from:

www.openoffice.org

Hope this helps.

Pete

> I have five Excel files which contain the records of my previous 4 years
> Business matters. Suddenly yesterday when I opned one of my files I received
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> Best Regards,
> Shakeel Ahmad.

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Shakeel Ahmad - 04 Apr 2008 17:22 GMT

I have tried this... But it did not work.... Please suggest me some thing
else..

I shall be grateful to the helper.

Best Regards,
Shakeel Ahmad.
...................................\

Some people have been able to recover "corrupted" Excel files by
opening them in OpenOffice - it is available as a free download from:

www.openoffice.org

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Apr 3, 4:30 pm, "Shakeel Ahmad" <shakeel.ahmad...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have five Excel files which contain the records of my previous 4 years
> Business matters. Suddenly yesterday when I opned one of my files I
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
> Best Regards,
> Shakeel Ahmad.

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Gord Dibben - 04 Apr 2008 19:19 GMT

If the file contains part of 4 years of business dealings, surely you have a
backup somewhere.

Do the other 4 files open correctly? Or are you a little hesitant about opening
them?

Did you ever mistakenly open your file in MS Word and inadvertantly save as a
Word Document?

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

>I have tried this... But it did not work.... Please suggest me some thing
>else..
[quoted text clipped - 41 lines]
>> Best Regards,
>> Shakeel Ahmad.

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Shakeel Ahmad - 05 Apr 2008 15:27 GMT

Thanks for replying.

> Do the other 4 files open correctly? Or are you a little hesitant about
> opening
> them?

All the 5 files are giving me the same error.

> Did you ever mistakenly open your file in MS Word and inadvertantly save
> as a
> Word Document?

No Sir, I have'nt done this ever.
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And Sir, I have downloaded a software from the Internet (ExcelFix-Trial
Version) It has recovered the file but it does not show all the contents,
it is showing only first 300 cells and also without formating.
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So is there any software that is freeware, which can do the same as ExcelFix
did?

Best Regards,
Shakeel Ahmad.
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> If the file contains part of 4 years of business dealings, surely you have
> a
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>>> Best Regards,
>>> Shakeel Ahmad.

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Gord Dibben - 05 Apr 2008 17:07 GMT

If you have tried OpenOffice with no results, I have no other suggestions.

Never tried ExcelFix so don't know what the usual results from that should be.

Gord

>Thanks for replying.
>
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>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Shakeel Ahmad.

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Shakeel Ahmad - 06 Apr 2008 11:00 GMT

Hope it will find you in the best of your health.

> If you have tried OpenOffice with no results, I have no other suggestions.
>
> Never tried ExcelFix so don't know what the usual results from that should
> be.
>
> Gord

Thanks for your kind response. I don't consider whether problem has been
solved or not but this thing must be appreciated that people guide here to
others according to their knowledge.

Thank You very much.

Shakeel Ahmad,
Pakistan.

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Alan124 - 16 Apr 2008 09:02 GMT

On Apr 3, 11:30 pm, "Shakeel Ahmad" <shakeel.ahmad...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have fiveExcelfiles which contain the records of my previous 4 years
> Business matters. Suddenly yesterday when I opned one of my files I received
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> Best Regards,
> Shakeel Ahmad.

Hi,

You may try Advanced Excel Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/
This tool is rather useful in salvaging damaged Excel xls files.

Hope this helps.

Alan

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