In other previous posts some people have reported that they have been
able to recover corrupt files using Open Office - available as a free
download from OpenOffice.org.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Nov 25, 3:00*pm, Hillary wrote:
Hi There,

Can anyone shed some light on this? *Please and thanks



"Hillary" wrote:
I have Excel 2007 SP2 on XP SP3 and I get clients that have corrupt xls files
quite a bit. *I tried the open "fix and repair" function and opening up xls
in safe mode but I am not able to open the file.

Is there a trick I am missing? OH and I scanned for viruses and nothing.. *
These are uncomplicated XLS files with no formulas - just data.

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