i am not able to open important excel file

[2003 excel file]

hi,please help me to open an excel 2003 file which has very important
data....it may cost my job,if i do not give the info from the file.
when i try to open the excel file,i get the message that :-

the file .xls cannot be accessed.the file may be read-only or you may be
trying to access a read-only location or, the server the document is stored
on may not be responding.

please help me ...i will be thankful for ur help.
mallikarjuna reddy
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Alan]

 hi,please help me to open an excel 2003 file which has very important
data....it may cost my job,if i do not give the info from the file.
when i try to open the excel file,i get the message that :-

the file .xls cannot be accessed.the file may be read-only or you may be
trying to  access a read-only location or, the server the document is stored
on may not be responding.

please help me ...i will be thankful for ur help.
mallikarjuna reddy
(e-mail address removed)

Hi,

Seems that the file is corrupted or something. I think you can try a
utility called Advanced Excel Repair to repair your Excel xls file. It
works rather well for my corrupt Excel xls files. Its web address is
http://www.datanumen.com/aer/

Alan