unexpected conversion trouble

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jeunecorto

I wanted to open an Excel file I hadn't been working on for a while, an
Excel couldn't do it.
After some investigations, I found that even if the file still had th
.xls extension, it seemed to be conveted in .doc format (in fact, whe
I open it in notepad, I can see at the end some words that look like
MSWord signature). I don't know how this happened, but I'm reall
embarassed beacause i really need the data in this file.
I tried to change the extension to .doc, open the file in Word and the
import in Excel, but I can hardly see part of the file. What's more, i
is a 3-sheets document, and only part of the 1st sheet seem to b
visible.

If someone knows how I could (re)convert the file to a readale exce
document, I would be really grateful.

Christia
 
Christian,

It sounds as though the document was opened with Word, then saved with Word,
converting it to a Word file. If so, you've been had. Good and had.
Spreadsheet functionality is lost. There's a recent post about this -- I
won't rant again, other than to say it's a damn outrage that this has been
happening to people for years.
 
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