On May 24, 10:17*pm, Gasol wrote:
I have an extremely important xls Worksheet *file, which of
course, no back up was made. *I am trying to fix it for somebody but I
keep
hitting dead ends. *I have Excel 2003 here, but if I try opening it up
in
any version it comes up with the error "Unable to read file". I am
just not sure where the 'corruptness' of the file is. *What would make
my life easier would be a program that would
automatically fix an Excel file.. but if theres not does anybody know
where
I might find information on the XLS format?

Thanks!

Hi,

I think you can try a utility called Advanced Excel Repair to repair
your Excel xls file. It works rather well for my corrupt Excel xls
files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ Hope this
helps.

Alan