I have a Windows 2003 domain with all win 2003 servers. My workstations are
windows 2000 with office xp installed. I have in the last week or so 3
different calls from users with the same problem. They created a spreadsheet
in excel with formulas and saved the file. When the went to open the file
again later on, the file was a word document, with a .doc extension. Word
opened the file fine of course without the formulas but if I try to open the
file in excel, excel tells me the file format is invalid. I then tried to
rename the extension to .xls, same error. Also tried opening the file in
word and saving as "filename.xls" and that didn't work.
Anyone have any clue as to what is going on? And more importantly is there
anyway of recovering the excel sheet?