SP3 appears to corrupt XLS files.

[David Follis]

Hello-

We have various excel files with sheets of data, sheets of excel charts, and
sheets of chemical structures produced by the application Chemdraw. Previous
to 2003 SP3, we were able to create these on one machine and send them to
others for review. After SP3, opening any of the files gives you a "Excel
found unreadable content in <filename>. Do you want to recover the contents
of this workbook?" Saying No will close Excel. Saying Yes creates a new
sheet with all of the graphic entitieds; charts, structures, removed. It
seems like this is related to the new security settings implamented but I can
find no way to resolve this issue.

All PCs are newer Dells with XP Pro SP2 and latest Windows and Office
updates installed.
Thanks for any info you have.

 

[Sheryl777]

We had the same problem and to get rid of it I had to uninstall Office 2003
and reinstall without the service pack. Hope that helps.

Sheryl Whitney (e-mail address removed)

 

[Straubie]

Have the same issue but all files were created by Excel, could not find a
workaround or fix since SP3 release. Uninstalled SP3 and went back to SP2,
still looking for solution.

 

[fyz]

Have the same issue but all files were created by Excel, could not find a
workaround or fix since SP3 release.  Uninstalled SP3 and went back to SP2,
still looking for solution.







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Hi David,

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