I have several Excel files saved on a "Flash Drive", and have been using them
on a very regular basis. Today, as I tried to open a few of them, they opened
just fine (in other words, no Error Message was shown at the time of
opening). But, once the file was opened, all of the worksheets were just
filled with strange symbols
(%&$#") instead of the actual words and numbers I had put in the cells. I
tried opening the 10 Excel documents that I had all saved on the Flash Drive,
and about half of them open perfectly, and the other half have all of these
symbols all over them. In using these files in recent days and months, I
have never gotten any type of error message when saving them. Has anyone had
this problem? Even though the files open perfectly, they only have symbols
in them which means they are worthless and I will have to start over. Thank
you for any advice you can provide.