Large Excel file will not open

[Guest]

I have a new computer Sempron 2600+, 512 megs ram, with Windows XP Pro and
Office Basic 2003 installed. I have an Excel file created on a Windows 98
computer with Excel 2002. I have copied the file to the new computer an am
unable to open the excel file. The excel file is approx 65 megs in size.
Whenever it goes to open the file it gets about half open, then I get an error
Excel cannot complete this task with available resources. Choose less data
or close other applications.

Then it tries to repair the file, then finally extracts the data from the
file.

This same file opens fine on a computer with Windows 98 and Excel 2002.
Looking for suggestions as to what might be the problem. Have spent hours
with MS support so far on this issue but not making any headway.

 

[Norman Jones]

Hi Robert,

See Chip Pearsons troubleshooting page at:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

 

[Guest]

I have tried all of that to no avail. The only common thing I can find with
the computers so far is that all have Windows XP Pro and all have AMD
processors with 512 megs ram. It is acting like some sort of a buffering
problem. But still unable to find anyone that can asisst.


robert

 

[Guest]

I have tested this on several Windows XP computers with AMD processors and
with 256, 512, and 1024 megs of RAM. The 68 meg file will not open on any of
these different computers. I have even installed Excel 2002 on one of these
and it still will not open. I am becoming more convinced that this has
something to do with Windows XP and how it is managing resources. Going to
repost in that group also.

robert

 

[Dave Peterson]

Just more questions/guesses...

If you open it on that win98/xl2002 system, and you save copy (as a new name),
can you open that copy on the other PCs?

OpenOffice also has a reputation for opening files that excel can'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