How do I recover a corrupt excel File

[Guest]

I have a large Database that has been corrupted when being transfered to a
new machine. It shows up as a 606kb file but excel will not open it. There
are over 2000 entries and I would really not like to enter all of this Data
again. PLEASE HELP! Even a partial recovery would be great.

 

[Myrna Larson]

You can try to open in in Word, using the Recover Text from Any File option in
the "files of type" box. The may eliminate some (but probably not all) of the
manual work needed to get your XLS file back.

 

[Dave Peterson]

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

 

[robertguy]

Hi,

I had a similar problem last week, and a friend of mine recovered AL
my data by opeing/importing the file in MS Access

I hope it works for you

Regards


Ro

 

[James Hinds]

'fdrlab.com' (http://www.fdrlab.com/)

Excel Repair service.

Good luck