Repaire my Excel file

[hansgunnarsson]

Hello
Is there a way to repaire my Excel-fil.
I get "Read-Error
Unknown or unsupported Exel file format"
It get broken when my computers frends crasch
Size is 360 kB
Hans

 

[Dave Peterson]

Lots of people have praised OpenOffice.org for saving their data and code.

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 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!)

 

[Dave Peterson]

Ps. Sometimes people open an excel file in MSWord and then save it as a Word
document (with a .xls extension). This can break the file, too.

You could try opening the file (or a copy of the file) in MSWord. If it opens
there, you could copy and paste back to xl.

But lots of things will be lost.

Good luck,

Ps. Do you have a backup?

 

[Guest]

Lots of people have praised OpenOffice.org for saving their data and code.

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

yes I had a Word document futzed - openoffice opened it and I saved it
back in word-format - I think some formatting/fonts got translated
into something else but otherwise it got it all back
Keith

 

[hansgunnarsson]

Ps. Sometimes people open an excel file in MSWord and then save it as a
Word
document (with a .xls extension). This can break the file, too.

You could try opening the file (or a copy of the file) in MSWord. If it
opens
there, you could copy and paste back to xl.

But lots of things will be lost.

Good luck,

Ps. Do you have a backup?

Tanks
But i have try to change and open in Word but no!
And OpenOffice is not working either.
But www.officerecovery.com whas not so bad.
I try that.
Thanks
Hans