Recovering a file that won't open

A file of 22 MB fails to open. It starts the process of opening but then
hangs up before anything appears on the screen. Is there any way to recover
this file?

Thanks.

In the open dialog box, did you try clicking the down arrow at the right-most
edge of the Open button and select Open and Repair...?

"Jeff Jones" wrote:

> A file of 22 MB fails to open. It starts the process of opening but then
> hangs up before anything appears on the screen. Is there any way to recover
> this file?
>
> Thanks.

Hi Jeff,

See Chip Pearson's notes at:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm


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Norman



"Jeff Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>A file of 22 MB fails to open. It starts the process of opening but then
> hangs up before anything appears on the screen. Is there any way to
> recover
> this file?
>
> Thanks.

Maybe you could try to find a copy of xl2002+ to see if opening|saving it there
would help.

Lots of people have said that openoffice has recovered workbooks that excel
couldn't.
(http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD)

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services. I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

Jeff Jones wrote:
>
> A file of 22 MB fails to open. It starts the process of opening but then
> hangs up before anything appears on the screen. Is there any way to recover
> this file?
>
> Thanks.

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Dave Peterson