Corrupt Excel file - £10 to fix!

I have an Excel file downloadable at www.adscott.com/file.xls (3.92 MB).

If anybody manages to repair it, I will pay £10 by PayPal. I have tried repairing it in Excel and using a third party recovery tool but it didn't work.

Thanks,

Scott

Scott,

go get a copy of open office and try opening it in that.

http://www.openoffice.org

It is a free (although large) download.

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> I have an Excel file downloadable at www.adscott.com/file.xls (3.92
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> If anybody manages to repair it, I will pay £10 by PayPal. I have tried
> repairing it in Excel and using a third party recovery tool but it
> didn't work.
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> Thanks,
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> Scott
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Have you tried opening it yourself in openoffice? Why might this work?

don't try it then. Apparently it isn't that important.

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You obviously took my message the wrong way. I was simply asking if you had tried this yourself already on your own computer with my file, and if not, why you think this might work in your opinion. I was not suggesting that it won't work.

No, if I clicked on your link it would try to open the file in Excel -
obviously that wouldn't work. And I have no need of downloading the
software, installing it, and associating it with *.xls.

I think it would work because it has worked for countless other individuals.
No guarantee, obviously, as I know nothing about the file.


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hi,
I haven't used these myself, but another couple of possibilities (besides Tom's suggestion of Open Office) are described on the following page:

http://wiki.ehow.com/Recover-a-Corrupt-Excel-File

hth
Rob Brockett
NZ
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