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)

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services. I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

tomgillane wrote:

Gord,

Thanks for the help but all of these fixes have been tried. I give up
trying to correct it myself with MS help. I am bringing the computer to a
local PC Repair company. Thanks again for the try.

Tom

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:15:02 -0800, "tomgillane"
wrote:

Things are starting to change for some reason or another. I am now getting
a new message when trying to access these files. I no longer get "cannot
access read-only <file name". I now get "<file name cannot be accessed.
The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding.".

Try the usual fix(es) for this problem.

ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again

If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel

Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP


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Dave Peterson