You may want to try OpenOffice.org and try opening, then saving (as a new
name). It's been known to save some (not always all) data, formatting, formulas
and code.

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

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services. I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

Jacob_Kreed wrote:

I have a 4mb file I was to recovery, it seems to hang for ages and then load.
Looks like the file has become corrupt

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Dave Peterson