Single Excel File Unable to Open

L

L.A. Lawyer

I have a single Excel 2000 file that will not open. The message is
"xxxx.xls" cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be
trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is
located on may not be responding."

I checked the check: it is not read-only. I know that the location is not
read-only or otherwise blocked, since we are able to access other files in
the same folder. We have tried this from different computers on the network
and all have the same problem. This is the only file with this issue.

I did notice that the inaccessible file is larger than it should be. We
have a number of similar files and they are all about 300 to 500 k and this
one is 1.7 megabytes. I don't know if that is helpful or not, but maybe
that will provide a clue.

Thanks!
 
G

Guest

We need to determine if the file is the problem or its location:

1. copy the file to your desktop
2. try to open the local copy by double-clicking the icon
3. try to open the local copy by first opening Excel and then FIle > Open
 
L

L.A. Lawyer

I copied the file to my own desktop and it still didn't open.

There is nothing wrong with the server: every other file opens perfectly.

Thank you people!
 
G

Guest

Sounds like you've got a corrupted file. If your server is backed-up
regularly, there may be an earlier version that you could recover.
 
G

Guest

Doesn't work for me, either. I have the same problem in Excel 2002. It
affects only one file. Sometimes it opens as Book1, but usually as a blank
screen ("Ready" in the lower left corner) with no filename in upper blue band
and no grid---yet if you try to do any of the things you cannot do to an open
file, you are told the file is open and it has to be closed.

The only unusual thing I have done recently is update with recommended
security downloads and the new version of IE.
 
G

Guest

Hi,

Try opening the file within excel. instead of directly double-clickng the
excel document.

Challa Prabhu
 

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