CVS file won't open in Excel 97, Help Please!

[Guest]

I'm new at this so please bear with me. I am trying to open a CVS
attachment. The attachment contains a spreadsheet with imported tab
delimited files.The attachment automatically opens my Excel program. (I have
tried to save the file and open but that doesn't work either). When the
program tries to open I get the error message: SYLK: File format is not valid

My excel program is Excel 97 Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dave Peterson]

This was posted by Myrna Larson:

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From - Wed Apr 12 17:18:13 2000

I have a Excel .csv file that somebody in my company e-mailed to me that
they want me to see if I can repair. When I try to open the file I get an
error message that says 'SYLK: file format is not valid'. Is there any way
that I can save this file?

You get this message when the 1st 2 characters in the file are "ID", without
the quotes. So use Notepad or WordPad to change one or both of these
characters. Then import it, then correct the data in the 1st cell.

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Maybe it's that "ID" as the first couple of bytes in your text file????