I have a xls file which I can open in excel 2003 but when i try to open it in excel 2007. The message below appears "Excel found unreadable content in work.xls. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbookm, click yes."

After I clicked yes...the content displayed is unreadable. Below is the log file.

Microsoft Office Excel File Repair Log
Errors were detected in file 'E:\work.xls'
The following is a list of repairs:
Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been lost or corrupted.

How do I solve this problem.

One way...

Install LibreOffice
Open the xls in Calc
Save the xls
Close Calc
Open the xls in Excel 2007

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To repair corrupted Excel Files, I always try Open and Repair function of MS Excel first. It is built-in repair function that helps me fix my corrupt .xlsx files and open them. As it is a built-in feature, it has a drawback. It might not work in severe corruption issues. In such situation, we can try a third-party recovery tool for corrupt Excel.I would recommend Excel Repair Tool software which to recover data from corrupt XLSX files that helps helps you repair corrupt .xlsx files and recovers your maximum possible data from them.

Take a look to the solution: http://www.mannatsoftware.com/stella...el-repair.html

It will help you.....