Excel won't open but Word can read

[Debbie]

I have Office XP professional, all updates are current.
After finishing a mail merge document on my Word program, I now cannot open
my workbook in Excel. I receive the error message "file format is not
valid." I have gone back into Word and it can still read all the data.
How do I open my Excel?

 

[Chip Pearson]

Did you open and save the Excel document within Word? This will
render it unreadable by Excel.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Debbie]

I'm not sure, somtine the fingers work faster than the brain. It still shows
up in it's folder as an excel doc. Is there any way to read or restor it?