Unable to open Excel File

[Jeff]

The following message was displayed when opening an excel
file from a floopy disk...

"????.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."

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi,

This is a frequently reported issue when opening files
from a floppy disk.

I know no way to recover those files. They may be corrupt
or just marked as being in use (user removed floppy
without closing the file first).
Maybe a disk repair tool might recover something.

NEVER work from a floppy in any MSoffice program. Copy
your file(s) to the HD and work on them. Then close all
files and copy them back to floppy.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP