I have a large file (Excel 97) with links and macros (written by data
access providers). This file was working fine and closed all right last
Sun. Now as I try to open it, Excel tries to open it for about 5 secs
and crashes with the dreaded "The Instruction at "0x301ebxxx"
referenced memory at "0x00000000". The
memory can not be read".

I can not open the file by disabling the macro as the file seems to
have a few Excel 4 macros.

Any suggestions?


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Hi jasanin,

Try this methods posted by Jan Karel Pieterse in this NG.

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Options to try and open a corrupt file

- Set calculation to manual
- open the file, but disable macros (assuming you've set macro security
to medium: Tools, Macro, security)
- As soon as you've clicked the disable macros button, press
control-pageup or control-pagedown, thus changing sheets.

If that does not work, try creating a link to the file:

='c:\my documents\[MyFileName.xls]Sheet1'!A1

and copy right and down. This at least gets you the worksheets values.

if you don't know the sheet names, enter this:

='C:\PathToFile\[MyFileName.xls]'!A1

and press enter

If XL (2000) is able to extract them, it will prompt you for a sheet
name.

Sometimes the Excel viewer, Word or even Internet explorer (v5) enables
you to open the file and copy information out of it.

If the file is not protected, maybe you can open it with OpenOffice
(www.Openoffice.org).

Also, Excel XP can sometimes repair XL files with trouble.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
www.jkp-ads.com
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