Excel Viewer 2003 Problem

[Michael Gerbasio]

Hi,
I'm a a co-worker sending me spreadsheets that are created in alother
program and saved as Excel files. I have no problem opening these in MS
Excel 2003 or 2007, but I do get a message that says the file is in a
different format than specified by the file extension but it opens fine.

When I tyr to open these in MS Excel Viewer, it tells me the file is
corrupt. I don't need the full version of Excel with me on my notebook and
was hoping to just use the viewer. Is there a program from MS that can check
and correct these Excel files, like a recovery program, so I can use these
with viewer? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[Gordon]

Hi,
I'm a a co-worker sending me spreadsheets that are created in alother
program and saved as Excel files. I have no problem opening these in MS
Excel 2003 or 2007, but I do get a message that says the file is in a
different format than specified by the file extension but it opens fine.

When I tyr to open these in MS Excel Viewer, it tells me the file is
corrupt. I don't need the full version of Excel with me on my notebook and
was hoping to just use the viewer. Is there a program from MS that can
check and correct these Excel files, like a recovery program, so I can use
these with viewer? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

What might this other program be?

 

[Michael Gerbasio]

Gordon,
I'm not sure, it may be a proprietary estimating program. We don't work for
the same company but are working on the same project.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[Gordon]

Gordon,
I'm not sure, it may be a proprietary estimating program. We don't work
for the same company but are working on the same project.

I was just wondering whether it might have been Open Office...

 

[Jim Cone]

Michael G,
Are you using the latest Excel viewer version?...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f9-ce06-4e1c-8dcf-f33f669dbc3a&displaylang=en

However, as that is a 76,000 kb download, I would think that installing a version
of Excel might be a better option.
--
Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)



"Michael Gerbasio"
wrote in message
Hi,
I'm a a co-worker sending me spreadsheets that are created in alother
program and saved as Excel files. I have no problem opening these in MS
Excel 2003 or 2007, but I do get a message that says the file is in a
different format than specified by the file extension but it opens fine.

When I tyr to open these in MS Excel Viewer, it tells me the file is
corrupt. I don't need the full version of Excel with me on my notebook and
was hoping to just use the viewer. Is there a program from MS that can check
and correct these Excel files, like a recovery program, so I can use these
with viewer? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[Don Guillett]

I don't use WORKS but perhaps?? it was a works file saved as an .xls file
that will open in xl2003 but may ?? not open with the viewer. Just a wild
guess....

 

[Alan]

Hi,
I'm a a co-worker sending me spreadsheets that are created in alother
program and saved asExcelfiles. I have no problem opening these in MSExcel2003 or 2007, but I do get a message that says the file is in a
different format than specified by the file extension but it opens fine.

When I tyr to open these in MSExcelViewer, it tells me the file iscorrupt.I don't need the full version ofExcelwith me on my notebook and
was hoping to just use the viewer. Is there a program from MS that can check
and correct theseExcelfiles, like a recovery program, so I can use these
with viewer? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

Hi,

I think you can try a utility called Advanced Excel Repair to repair
your Excel xls file. It works rather well for my corrupt Excel xls
files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/aer/

Alan