this error message is presented when i open previously saved documents.

You can get this if you've opened a .xls file in MSWord and saved it.

If that's the case, you may want to try opening that file in MSWord and seeing
how much you can salvage (just copy|paste).

But restoring from backup may be the way to go...

Lots of people have praised OpenOffice.org for saving their data and code.
http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-104 meg download or a CD

There are commercial recovery services. I've never used it, but you might want
to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

And sometimes newer versions of excel can open files that older versions can't.
(And sometimes just different versions may work, too!)

Naveed Khan wrote:

this error message is presented when i open previously saved documents.


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Dave Peterson