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I have a series of automated procedures and macros that read text files into
Excel spreadsheets and then send the resulting workbooks to various
recipients, some via FTP to a server and some via email to individuals.

The server where the Excel processing takes place (running Excel 2002)
produces numerous workbooks, all openable and readable on that server. One
of the workbooks is fine when it's FTPed, but when it's attached to an
email, it's corrupted. Opening it (using Excel 2003) gives the
message: "<Filename cannot be accessed. It may be read-only, or you may be
trying to access a read-only location ... " Then I click "Cancel," and it
opens, attempts repairs, but "Damage to the file was so extensive that
repairs were not possible." The data seems to be there, but the formatting
(bolding, column widths, etc.) is gone.

The "<Filename cannot be accessed ... " error message is associated with
Excel 97, I see from the online knowledge base, and it's possible that the
"template" used for this particular workbook was originally written in E97,
but it's been opened and saved on the server in E2002.

This only happens with this one workbook out of 30 or so, and only when it's
attached to an email. It's not a large file and has no particularly exotic
features. What the heck? Could the problem be in Outlook? That's where the
emailed file is read from.

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