Corrupt Excel File

[newbie]

How to recover corrupt Excel file ?

One of my Excel file got corrupted.
I cannot recover it by using Microsoft office Application tool.
Is their any other way of recovering the corrupt file?
Regards.

 

[Norman Jones]

Hi Newbie,

Some people have reported success in opening contentious files
using the OpenOffice (OOo) suite which is available as a (> 60MB) download
at:

http://www.openoffice.org/

It is also available as a cd.

 

[Formateur]

File "A" is corrupted (write down where it is on a piece of paper). Open a
fresh file call it file "B".Save file "B" in the same directory as "A".
Then in A1 sheet1 type the following formula:
=[A.xls]sheet1!a1
copy the formula down(as far as you need)
Then copy towards the right(as far as you need)
You will recover the values only and lose all your formulas & functions. But
at least you can rebuild from here.
HTH

Gilles Desjardins