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

by Pat McMillan <patmcmil@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sep 11, 2008 at 09:20 AM

Thanks S.T. If you still have a copy of your file before it became
corrupted
and could share it with me, I would love to investigate. Also, if you
could
tell me that as best as you remember what steps you took with the file
prior
to the last time you save it before it became corrupted it would be a
great
help.

Thanks,

Pat
patmcmil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 9/11/08 8:40 AM, in article ee9ae3c.21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "S.T.
Black" <> wrote:

> 
> 
>       I managed to recover my file two ways:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       1. I sent it to Patrick McMillan at Microsoft and he recovered it
using
>       a PC and he saved it to .xls 2. A buddy recovered it using iWork
and
> ex****ted
>       it to .xls, this retained more of the formatting than the
previous.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       Many thanks to Pat, great sup****t.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Just like chime in that I too experienced the corruption issue and was
able to
> recover it using the iWork im****t/ex****t functionality.
> 
> The spreadsheet in question made heavy use of conditional sums but was
> otherwise fairly ordinary - no graphs, charts, enormous size, etc.
> 
> There was no prior crash/problem closing that would have been an obvious
> trigger for file corruption.
> 
> The file was saved in the .xlsx format.
> 
> I hope this issue is able to be identified quickly and resolved.

-- 
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided łAS IS˛ with no warranties, and confers no
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