corrupt files

[martin dearden]

Have just upgraded from Win 2000 to Win XP Pro and all
the Excel (but no other files) are corrupt. All manner
of retrieval programs tried but to no avail. Any advice.

Martin Dearden

Liverpool

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Martin,

Oh no. Have you tried "Open and repair?" This is in the Open button in the
File - Open dialog of Excel 2002. DOn't know about XL2000. It's not in
XL97.

The spreadsheet program in www.openoffice.org is said to be able to read
damaged files too.

Have you been to the knowledge base, www.microsoft.com?

You should send some of the files to someone to see if they're really messed
up, or if your system is just routinely fubar.

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi martin

are corrupt

what do you mean by this?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Before you do anything too drastic, can you copy a few of those files to a
different pc to see if that version of windows & excel can read them?