In article , wrote:
Some people have said that they can open corrupted workbooks in OpenOffice.org.

http://openoffice.org
is where you''d go to download the free office suite.

That used to be one of the recommended possibilities. I have to say that I
know one case where opening a corrupted word 2007 in OO didn't work ... but
we think that was largely due to endnote not playing well with others. :)
And of course, you might lose/change some formatting.


jonty wrote:

How can corrupted .xls & .doc file be recovered to Excel and Word
applications?