Hi,
Options to try and open a corrupt Excel file
- Set calculation to manual
- open the file, but disable macros (assuming you've set
macro security to medium: Tools, Macro, security)
- As soon as you've clicked the disable macros button,
press control-pageup or control-pagedown, thus changing
sheets.
If that does not work, try creating a link to the file:
='c:\my documents\[MyFileName.xls]Sheet1'!A1
and copy right and down. This at least gets you the
worksheets values.
if you don't know the sheet names, enter this:
='C:\PathToFile\[MyFileName.xls]'!A1
and press enter
If XL (2000) is able to extract them, it will prompt you
for a sheet name.
Sometimes the Excel viewer, Word or even Internet explorer
(v5) enables you to open the file and copy information out
of it.
If the file is not protected, maybe you can open it with
OpenOffice (
www.Openoffice.org).
Also, Excel XP can sometimes repair XL files with trouble.
If you can open the file, saving as filetype Web page and
closing, opening and resaving the web file as normal
workbook may clear errors.
Regards,
Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
