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Excel Help!!

blahblah06 · 2012-04-11 11:22:31

Hi lads. Just this morning opened up an xcel file and got an error stating xls file in a different format than specified by the file extension The file size says 0 bytes but it was a big file. Is there anything i can do to get this back?

11-04-2012 11:22am

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blahblah06

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Hi lads.

Just this morning opened up an xcel file and got an error stating

xls file in a different format than specified by the file extension

The file size says 0 bytes but it was a big file.

Is there anything i can do to get this back?

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#2 11-04-2012 11:35am

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Do you get any file recovery options when opening Excel directly?

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#3 11-04-2012 11:40am

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i tried that but just have the empty excel sheet.

this is the error im getting

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#4 12-04-2012 12:29pm

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Looks like the file has been moved or renamed

do a search for it ?

if the file is there and is broken then use openoffice or libreoffice to open it.

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#5 13-04-2012 10:07am

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If the file has 0bytes then it looks like its become corrupted/moved etc. Do a search on the computer "all files and folders" for *.xls and then *.xlsx (incase its a new format file). These cirteria will return all excel files on your computer, including the temporary directories once you ensure to search all files & folders

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