You may get it open with the free program OpenOffice which reportedly does
wondrous things with corrupt Excel files.

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

Or just open your backup copy of the file..............you do have a backup of
an "important" file, right?

You cannot back up the date on your computer to before the file became corrupt.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:54:13 -0700, BillHolmes
wrote:

I suddenly find myself with an important file that is corrupted.

1) Is there a way to recover it?

2) Is there a way to back up the date of the computer to a time before the
file was corrupted?