Hi Kayden,
I am currently having problems with a 2mb Excel
file locking up on me and crashing. It is a very important
file and I can't afford to lose it. What can I do?
Options to try and open a corrupt file
- Set calculation to manual
- open the file, but disable macros (assuming you've set macro security
to medium: Tools, Macro, security)
- As soon as you've clicked the disable macros button, press
control-pageup or control-pagedown, thus changing sheets.
If that does not work, try creating a link to the file:
='c:\my documents\[MyFileName.xls]Sheet1'!A1
and copy right and down. This at least gets you the worksheets values.
if you don't know the sheet names, enter this:
='C:\PathToFile\[MyFileName.xls]'!A1
and press enter
If XL (2000) is able to extract them, it will prompt you for a sheet
name.
Sometimes the Excel viewer, Word or even Internet explorer (v5) enables
you to open the file and copy information out of it.
If the file is not protected, maybe you can open it with OpenOffice
(
www.Openoffice.org).
Also, Excel XP can sometimes repair XL files with trouble.
Finally, sometimes a corrupt file that still can be opened,
can be cured using this method (XL2000 or up):
- Open the file
- Save-as filetype Webpage
- close the file
- Open the html file
- save-as normal Excel workbook.
Regards,
Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
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