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I have a user who emailed a spreadsheet from home to the office. When he
arrived this morning he found it is in html. He has been working for several
hours making changes and I want to some how convert this back to an xls file.

Is it possible to convert this html to xls? and will I be able to save all
of the work he did while it was in html?
Thanks

Just open it in Excel. Excel can read what it saved. You should get back
all or most of what you had. Bizarre though to have saved in HTML by
accident; it's not exactly an easy mistake to make.

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Jim
"instauratio" <instauratio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DAA395F0-C1F7-4DD4-92B2-D6352FF4F856@microsoft.com...
|I have a user who emailed a spreadsheet from home to the office. When he
| arrived this morning he found it is in html. He has been working for
several
| hours making changes and I want to some how convert this back to an xls
file.
|
| Is it possible to convert this html to xls? and will I be able to save all
| of the work he did while it was in html?
| Thanks

make a copy of the file and try opening the copy in Excel to see what
happens. There are so many things that can be different, and it is not
working with Excel when it is in HTML. While it was being worked on
in HTML was it an office program that was being used.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"instauratio" <instauratio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DAA395F0-C1F7-4DD4-92B2-D6352FF4F856@microsoft.com...
> I have a user who emailed a spreadsheet from home to the office. When he
> arrived this morning he found it is in html. He has been working for several
> hours making changes and I want to some how convert this back to an xls file.
>
> Is it possible to convert this html to xls? and will I be able to save all
> of the work he did while it was in html?
> Thanks

I found that by "editing with excel" and then "saving as a worksheet" I was
able to satisfy the user.

I think that the user hit "save as a web page" by accident which is listed
right below the traditional "save as".

thanks for the help!

"David McRitchie" wrote:

> make a copy of the file and try opening the copy in Excel to see what
> happens. There are so many things that can be different, and it is not
> working with Excel when it is in HTML. While it was being worked on
> in HTML was it an office program that was being used.
> ---
> HTH,
> David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
> My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
> Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm
>
> "instauratio" <instauratio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DAA395F0-C1F7-4DD4-92B2-D6352FF4F856@microsoft.com...
> > I have a user who emailed a spreadsheet from home to the office. When he
> > arrived this morning he found it is in html. He has been working for several
> > hours making changes and I want to some how convert this back to an xls file.
> >
> > Is it possible to convert this html to xls? and will I be able to save all
> > of the work he did while it was in html?
> > Thanks
>
>
>

Thanks for the update, it hadn't even occurred to me until I saw the
other answer that this person had saved it as HTML while continuing
to work with the file in Excel.


"instauratio" <instauratio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote...
> I found that by "editing with excel" and then "saving as a worksheet" I was
> able to satisfy the user.
>
> I think that the user hit "save as a web page" by accident which is listed
> right below the traditional "save as".