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I have received an XLS folder with 2 files on CD which I have downloaded to
my Documents. These files contain €˜Spreadsheets. The first file 60KB opens
in €˜Office Word Viewer without any problems. The second file which is a much
larger 37MB will not open in €˜Word or the Excel Viewer and this message
appears:-

€œOffice application experienced an error trying to open the file. Try these
suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Make sure
there is sufficient free memory and disk space. Open the file with the Text
Recovery converter€œ.

My computer is €˜Vista Home Premium can you suggest any other way to open
this file or is my computer not up to the job? Many thanks.
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When you checked the file permissions, are you sure that it didn't say
read-only? If it did, uncheck that option.
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I have received an XLS folder with 2 files on CD which I have downloaded to
my Documents. These files contain 'Spreadsheets'. The first file 60KB
opens
in 'Office Word Viewer' without any problems. The second file which is a
much
larger 37MB will not open in 'Word or the Excel Viewer' and this message
appears:-

"Office application experienced an error trying to open the file. Try
these
suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Make
sure
there is sufficient free memory and disk space. Open the file with the
Text
Recovery converter".

My computer is 'Vista Home Premium' can you suggest any other way to open
this file or is my computer not up to the job? Many thanks.



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