Re: Excel cannot open this file. The file might have been damaged

Hey this worked for me!  Thank god.  I believe the issue was that excel 
crashed and opened the file via autosave.  Once I went to save the file, I

chose save as and clicked on the original file.  Once I did that I could
no 
longer open the file "which was password protected.  I would put in the 
password and then get the error we are talking about in this thread.  I 
copied the file, renamed it to .xml and it opened perfectly.  Saved my ^$$

"lantheaume@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:

> I found a solution of sorts from this thread -
<http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Excel/1539/0>.
> 
> making a copy, and changing the extension to .xml worked.
> 
> I then re-saved the file over the old one as an xlsx and it saved and
reopened fine.
> 
> I think what triggered it was the "Conditional Sum" I have going (it's
under Tools), as it's the only thing unique compared to my other docs.
> 
> Anyone else have any experience with conditional sum and issues?
>