Emergency Operation on .xls file

[Wildcatbeer]

Hi Everyone,

We have an .xls file on a floppy that just will not open It tells me

"movielist.xls cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or yo
may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server th
document is stored on may not be responding."

The file is not "read-only" I checked under properties.
The security tab on the floppy is not the problem either.
Can a Floppy itself be designated read-only?

I changed the .xls to a .doc and opened it fine, but then i tried t
change it to .xls again and it wouldnt open.
The disc itself is not damaged as far as I can see. (otherwise i
wouldn't open as a .doc)
I've looked everywhere for a temp file or backup file using the Fin
"*.xls" But no luck.

Is there something else I can try?

Thank

 

[Don Guillett]

Answered elsewhere

 

[Gord Dibben]

Wild

First.....NEVER save to or open from a floppy. Floppies are good for storing
or transporting files.

Save to Hard Drive then copy to floppy. When you need to access the file,
copy it to the Hard Drive then open from there.

You may get lucky if you try to open from the Hard Drive. You may not. It is
probably now a Word Document at best and junk at worst.

Excel 2002 has more luck with opening corrupted files than earlier versions.

Open Office also has been known to deal with corrupted Excel files.

http://www.openoffice.org/ which is a 60 meg download.

Gord Dibben XL2002