Can you open the file in WP and see the data? Simply opening it
shouldn't have affected the data, so I wonder if you saved it
(overwriting the original) inadvertently.

If so, you may be able to copy the data and paste it into a new workbook.

If you did overwrite it, and if you don't have a backup, you're probably
not getting the data back.

In article ,
Patty wrote:

I opened an excel file in Word Perfect to use as a merge data file, but now
my excel file looks like a bunch of squarish circles and symbols with a few
words. How do I get my excel data back?