File not opening

[Nawaz50]

I was working with a file, due to electricity breakdown compute
shutdown. when I restarted and opened that file it gave message:
"file name" cannot be accessed. The file may be read only, or you ma
be trying to access read only location. Or the server the document i
stored on may not be responding.

file is saved on my computer.

how can I open this file

 

[Dave Peterson]

Try this first (from Debra Dalgleish's site):
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#ReadOnly


If that doesn't work...

It sounds like your file got corrupted.

For future use...

If you're using xl2002+, turn on autorecovery. Tools|options|save tab

If you're using xl2k or below, get a copy of Jan Karel Pieterse's addin called
AutoSafe. (It actually works with any version.)

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm
(look for AutoSafe.zip, not autosafeVBE.zip, for your purposes.)

Jan Karel's version will know if there was a crash and prompt you to open the
last version it saved.

For your current dilemma:

Lots of people have praised OpenOffice.org for saving their data and code.
http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-104 meg download or a CD

There are commercial recovery services. I've never used it, but you might want
to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

And sometimes newer versions of excel can open files that older versions can't.
(And sometimes just different versions may work, too!)