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MS Office Forum / Excel / General Excel Questions / May 2008Corrupted Worksheet
I have an extremely important xls Worksheet file, which of course, no back up was made. I am trying to fix it for somebody but I keep hitting dead ends. I have Excel 2003 here, but if I try opening it up in any version it comes up with the error "Unable to read file". I am just not sure where the 'corruptness' of the file is. What would make my life easier would be a program that would automatically fix an Excel file.. but if theres not does anybody know where I might find information on the XLS format? Thanks! > I have an extremely important xls Worksheet file, which of > course, no back up was made. I am trying to fix it for somebody but I [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Thanks! Hi, I think you can try a utility called Advanced Excel Repair to repair your Excel xls file. It works rather well for my corrupt Excel xls files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ Hope this helps. Alan Did you try open office? Just yesterday, I inadvertently had a udf and a sub named the same and 2003 and 2007 would just freeze. Fixed.  SignatureDon Guillett Microsoft MVP Excel SalesAid Software dguillett1@austin.rr.com >I have an extremely important xls Worksheet file, which of > course, no back up was made. I am trying to fix it for somebody but I [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Thanks! What is the rest of the error message? Excel should give more info about why it is unreadable. Could be as simple as not having double quotes around the path in your shortcut to open. "C:\your path to file folder\filename.xls" But, if Excel thinks the workbook is corrupted, Open Office seems to have good luck in opening Excel files. http://www.openoffice.org, a 120 meg download or a CD Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP >I have an extremely important xls Worksheet file, which of >course, no back up was made. I am trying to fix it for somebody but I [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Thanks! |
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