I have Excel 2007 SP2 on XP SP3 and I get clients that have corrupt xls files
quite a bit. I tried the open "fix and repair" function and opening up xls
in safe mode but I am not able to open the file.

Is there a trick I am missing? OH and I scanned for viruses and nothing.
These are uncomplicated XLS files with no formulas - just data.

Please and thanks

Hi There,

Can anyone shed some light on this? Please and thanks

"Hillary" wrote:

> I have Excel 2007 SP2 on XP SP3 and I get clients that have corrupt xls files
> quite a bit. I tried the open "fix and repair" function and opening up xls
> in safe mode but I am not able to open the file.
>
> Is there a trick I am missing? OH and I scanned for viruses and nothing.
> These are uncomplicated XLS files with no formulas - just data.
>
> Please and thanks

In other previous posts some people have reported that they have been
able to recover corrupt files using Open Office - available as a free
download from OpenOffice.org.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Nov 25, 3:00*pm, Hillary <Hill...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? *Please and thanks
>
>
>
> "Hillary" wrote:
> > I have Excel 2007 SP2 on XP SP3 and I get clients that have corrupt xlsfiles
> > quite a bit. *I tried the open "fix and repair" function and opening up xls
> > in safe mode but I am not able to open the file.
>
> > Is there a trick I am missing? OH and I scanned for viruses and nothing.. *
> > These are uncomplicated XLS files with no formulas - just data.
>
> > Please and thanks- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi,
read & try
http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=3172

"Hillary" wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? Please and thanks
>
> "Hillary" wrote:
>
> > I have Excel 2007 SP2 on XP SP3 and I get clients that have corrupt xls files
> > quite a bit. I tried the open "fix and repair" function and opening up xls
> > in safe mode but I am not able to open the file.
> >
> > Is there a trick I am missing? OH and I scanned for viruses and nothing.
> > These are uncomplicated XLS files with no formulas - just data.
> >
> > Please and thanks