excel file won't open

[Jude Barnes]

We have an excel file we've been adjusting for the past week. All of
the sudden the file only opens to an hourglass (file never opens and
you have to "END TASK") Before we start spending hours searching, does
anyone know of any reliable tools we might use to rescue this file?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
We have an excel file we've been adjusting for the past week. All of
the sudden the file only opens to an hourglass (file never opens and
you have to "END TASK") Before we start spending hours searching, does
anyone know of any reliable tools we might use to rescue this file?
.
Try the following:

Start
Run
excel /s (safe mode)

 

[Dave Peterson]

Chip Pearson has some notes to help diagnose startup problems at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

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