excel error

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Jon

Hi I'm getting an error when I try to open up an Excel
file from my documents folder.
The error reads Excel has caused an error in excel exe.
excel will now close.
If you continue to experience problems try restarting
your computer.
All the other excel files in my documents I am able to
open. If anyone can help me resolve this isuue I would
love to hear from you, thanks!!!!
Jon
 
Hi Jon - I did a quick search on the Excel NGs for corrupted files and this
is what I came up with. I hope it helps, but if not you at least have a
starting point.

Geoff

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These two postings cover most of what I've seen about recovering
corrupt files. The first includes a spiel on what to do with files on
floppies.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...off&selm=eTSTbZZrCHA.1656@TK2MSFTNGP09&rnum=3
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=u4yjYc$v$GA.207@cppssbbsa03

HTH
Paul
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I found it it's Excelfix at www.cimaware.com, they have a
software that recovers damaged or corrupt Excel files. As
far as I know it works

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Sometimes excel workbooks get corrupted.

One cause is opening them from a floppy and saving to that floppy. (Instead
you
should use windows explorer to copy to your harddrive/LAN drive), work on it
from there, save it there and use windows explorer to copy it back to the
floppy.)

Another is opening the workbook in MSWord and saving it as an MSWord
document
(with a .xls extension).

If you did the MSWord thing, you maybe able to recover a little bit of your
data
by opening it in MSWord and copying and then pasting to excel. (But tons of
stuff will be lost.)

And sometimes the workbooks just get corrupted.

You might be able to recover more by using another program--both xl2002 and
OpenOffice have better reputations for opening files that earlier versions
of
excel couldn't.

(http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD)

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services.
I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

Do you have a backup? Any chance you emailed a version to someone who could
email it back?

and one last ditch effort:
Start excel in safe mode and try opening your file.

Windows start button|Run
excel /safe

now file|open to see if your workbook will open.
 
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