Repair Corrupt Excel File

I have an excel 2003 workbook that will not open. The file is about 14MB. I
have tried the repair utility within Excel but it still will not open.
Anyone have any ideas?

I have had success opening corrupt files with OpenOffice

http://openoffice.org

In article <CF4A5951-DCD9-4508-B995-FB7F6585BF78@microsoft.com>,
"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have an excel 2003 workbook that will not open. The file is about 14MB. I
> have tried the repair utility within Excel but it still will not open.
> Anyone have any ideas?

The Spreadsheet part of the free Office Suite OpenOffice, available from
www.openoffice.org may well be able to open it. It is very good at opening
corrupt excel files that even Excel cannot ( Don't ask :-< ). It's an 80MB
download, but is well worth having on hand for things just such as this.
Possible though that you will only be able to recover raw data and not
formulas etc.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
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"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CF4A5951-DCD9-4508-B995-FB7F6585BF78@microsoft.com...
>I have an excel 2003 workbook that will not open. The file is about 14MB.
>I
> have tried the repair utility within Excel but it still will not open.
> Anyone have any ideas?

I just downloaded and installed openoffice but the file I am trying to open
just comes up "Error loading document.....incorrect file format"

"Ken Wright" wrote:

> The Spreadsheet part of the free Office Suite OpenOffice, available from
> www.openoffice.org may well be able to open it. It is very good at opening
> corrupt excel files that even Excel cannot ( Don't ask :-< ). It's an 80MB
> download, but is well worth having on hand for things just such as this.
> Possible though that you will only be able to recover raw data and not
> formulas etc.
>
> --
> Regards
> Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
> Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03
>
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> It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-)
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>
> "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CF4A5951-DCD9-4508-B995-FB7F6585BF78@microsoft.com...
> >I have an excel 2003 workbook that will not open. The file is about 14MB.
> >I
> > have tried the repair utility within Excel but it still will not open.
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>

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