Corrupt excel file

I have a very important file on excel. This morning i tried to open it and
i'm getting an error message saying

Errors were detected in file 'C:\Documents and Settings\HSingh\Desktop\CLD
2nd qtr 06 report-30jun06.xls'
The following is a list of repairs:

Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel
attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been
lost or corrupted.

I then have an open to just close the dialog box and all the worksheets are
blank with no values at all.

I have read the knowledge base article 820712 on this and it states that the
file can be open in previous versions but not in 2003, which is what i am
using. I dont have any previous versions of excel on my machine.

Is there anything i can do to recover the data on the spreadsheet?

Thank you
Hervinder

So are you saying that it may be possible to open this file in excel 2000?
Becasue if that is so then you could email me the file, I can open it in
excel 2000, save it with another filename and email you it back.

"Hervinder" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I have a very important file on excel. This morning i tried to open it and
> i'm getting an error message saying
>
> Errors were detected in file 'C:\Documents and Settings\HSingh\Desktop\CLD
> 2nd qtr 06 report-30jun06.xls'
> The following is a list of repairs:
>
> Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel
> attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been
> lost or corrupted.
>
> I then have an open to just close the dialog box and all the worksheets
> are
> blank with no values at all.
>
> I have read the knowledge base article 820712 on this and it states that
> the
> file can be open in previous versions but not in 2003, which is what i am
> using. I dont have any previous versions of excel on my machine.
>
> Is there anything i can do to recover the data on the spreadsheet?
>
> Thank you
> Hervinder
>

You can download "OpenOffice" from OpenOffice.org. Its free. And its
spreadsheet "Calc" may be able to open your file and then re-save it as
another .xls file. May be fixable...

Beege


"Hervinder" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I have a very important file on excel. This morning i tried to open it and
> i'm getting an error message saying
>
> Errors were detected in file 'C:\Documents and Settings\HSingh\Desktop\CLD
> 2nd qtr 06 report-30jun06.xls'
> The following is a list of repairs:
>
> Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel
> attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been
> lost or corrupted.
>
> I then have an open to just close the dialog box and all the worksheets
> are
> blank with no values at all.
>
> I have read the knowledge base article 820712 on this and it states that
> the
> file can be open in previous versions but not in 2003, which is what i am
> using. I dont have any previous versions of excel on my machine.
>
> Is there anything i can do to recover the data on the spreadsheet?
>
> Thank you
> Hervinder
>