You may want to try openoffice. Lots of people have said that it's recovered
workbooks that excel couldn't.

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


poul, denmark wrote:

I have - succesfully - tried some of the demoversion to recover an excel
file. The recover-programs do im fact recover some of my file - and fill out
with "DEMO". I have only one single "corrupt" file. There must be somewhere I
can recover this single file for free. What about Microsoft?? Seems to me
they ought to have such a program.

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Dave Peterson