It might be worth trying to open it with Open Office.
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David Biddulph

"Znarf" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have an important excel document that was lost when I thought that I had
backed it up but instead didnot. I did a quick format on my notebook and
reloaded the O/S(Win XP). After realizing what had happend I tried to
recover
the file. I was able to recover the file but now when I try to open the
file
is says that it is corrupted and uneadable and it shows me alot of foreign
characters and signs when I try to open it with Office Excel 2007. Is
there
any way I can retrieve data in a readable format?