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Keep saving corrupt Excel files
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone can explain to me why Excel files keep gettign corrupted. I have a user who seems to be saving Excel files and then they are getting corrupted. Is there anything I should be checking for? I have tested a product online which seems to work well in recovering a corrupted file as Microsoft sometimes cannot repair it. Can anyone help? Many thanks, Luke |
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Keep saving corrupt Excel files
I would have that 'certain users' hard disk verified with something like
scandisk (does that still exist in Windows?) Mike "Luke Chalmers" wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone can explain to me why Excel files keep gettign corrupted. I have a user who seems to be saving Excel files and then they are getting corrupted. Is there anything I should be checking for? I have tested a product online which seems to work well in recovering a corrupted file as Microsoft sometimes cannot repair it. Can anyone help? Many thanks, Luke |
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Keep saving corrupt Excel files
Luke,
One possibility is that users are opening the workbook file with Word, then saving it. But that wouldn't, I'm sure, be recoverable by anything. The problem is that Word, although issuing a warning, saves the Word file with the .xls extension, overwriting the original file. You don't believe me -- but it does, and has done so for several versions of Word through 2003 (although I don't know about 2007). Open Office has been able to fix corrupted Excel files. It's a free download. www.openoffice.com -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com Note: Top-posting has been the norm here. Some folks prefer bottom-posting. But if you bottom-post to a reply that's already top-posted, the thread gets messy. When in Rome... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Luke Chalmers" wrote in message ... Hello, I was wondering if anyone can explain to me why Excel files keep gettign corrupted. I have a user who seems to be saving Excel files and then they are getting corrupted. Is there anything I should be checking for? I have tested a product online which seems to work well in recovering a corrupted file as Microsoft sometimes cannot repair it. Can anyone help? Many thanks, Luke |
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