A couple more links as supplied by Leith Ross a a reply to
http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...=1#post1863648

How to recover data from damaged workbooks in Excel 2002 and 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/8207...d=2512&sid=106

How to handle corrupt Excel workbooks by saving them in the SLYK format in Excel 2003 or Excel 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3006...d=2512&sid=106