Excel opening w/ garbage
I save all my files on a CD. Today, I accessed two excel files that pertain
to paychecks and mileage for tax purposes. After saving them by clicking the disk icon on the toolbar, I accessed them later only to have garbage come up on the screen. I noticed one thing different at the bottom of the excel window. It indicated "TEXT OPENING filename" with a progress bar. Then I get what looks like a lot of greek junk on the screen. Here is a sample of what is displayed: youyyuyeoyy......... Each letter as symbols over them, ie two dots or ` ^, and some letters/symbols are special characters. Can anyone please tell what is going? Thanks, Les |
Excel opening w/ garbage
Can anyone please tell what is going (on) ?
I can make a guess: "I save all my files on a CD" People used to (and still do) have similar problems when saving "live" Excel files to floppies. That was a bad idea. It still is. Live Excel files and temporary media just don't get along very well. Save them locally (or to a network) first and then copy the file to CD. HTH, -- George Nicholson Remove 'Junk' from return address. "WLMPilot" wrote in message ... I save all my files on a CD. Today, I accessed two excel files that pertain to paychecks and mileage for tax purposes. After saving them by clicking the disk icon on the toolbar, I accessed them later only to have garbage come up on the screen. I noticed one thing different at the bottom of the excel window. It indicated "TEXT OPENING filename" with a progress bar. Then I get what looks like a lot of greek junk on the screen. Here is a sample of what is displayed: youyyuyeoyy......... Each letter as symbols over them, ie two dots or ` ^, and some letters/symbols are special characters. Can anyone please tell what is going? Thanks, Les |
Excel opening w/ garbage
Will saving the files that are messing up on the HD after I open them w/ the
garbage displayed correct the problem? Is there a way to recover the data from the CD "George Nicholson" wrote: Can anyone please tell what is going (on) ? I can make a guess: "I save all my files on a CD" People used to (and still do) have similar problems when saving "live" Excel files to floppies. That was a bad idea. It still is. Live Excel files and temporary media just don't get along very well. Save them locally (or to a network) first and then copy the file to CD. HTH, -- George Nicholson Remove 'Junk' from return address. "WLMPilot" wrote in message ... I save all my files on a CD. Today, I accessed two excel files that pertain to paychecks and mileage for tax purposes. After saving them by clicking the disk icon on the toolbar, I accessed them later only to have garbage come up on the screen. I noticed one thing different at the bottom of the excel window. It indicated "TEXT OPENING filename" with a progress bar. Then I get what looks like a lot of greek junk on the screen. Here is a sample of what is displayed: youyyuyeoyy......... Each letter as symbols over them, ie two dots or ` ^, and some letters/symbols are special characters. Can anyone please tell what is going? Thanks, Les |
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