xls_auto_files

[Leebones]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

My PC crashed. I paid someone to salvage all the data possible. I now have a MAC with the parallels feature. I have Office Mac 2004. When I attempt to open any of my old excel files, I get a message, "File format is not valid". However, I can clearly see that the files are some type of excel extension. They are denoted as xls_auto_file. What do I need to do to recover these files in my 2004 excel for Mac?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

My PC crashed. I paid someone to salvage all the data possible. I now have a
MAC with the parallels feature. I have Office Mac 2004. When I attempt to
open any of my old excel files, I get a message, "File format is not valid".
However, I can clearly see that the files are some type of excel extension.
They are denoted as xls_auto_file. What do I need to do to recover these
files in my 2004 excel for Mac?

Those are probably autorecover files - not workbooks. IIRC, they contain
only changes, so you'd have to have the original .xls file.