Keep saving corrupt Excel files

[Guest]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone can explain to me why Excel files keep gettign
corrupted. I have a user who seems to be saving Excel files and then they are
getting corrupted.

Is there anything I should be checking for? I have tested a product online
which seems to work well in recovering a corrupted file as Microsoft
sometimes cannot repair it.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks,

Luke

 

[Guest]

I would have that 'certain users' hard disk verified with something like
scandisk (does that still exist in Windows?)

Mike

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Luke,

One possibility is that users are opening the workbook file with Word, then saving it. But
that wouldn't, I'm sure, be recoverable by anything. The problem is that Word, although
issuing a warning, saves the Word file with the .xls extension, overwriting the original
file. You don't believe me -- but it does, and has done so for several versions of Word
through 2003 (although I don't know about 2007).

Open Office has been able to fix corrupted Excel files. It's a free download.
www.openoffice.com
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Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com

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