Excel cannot open this file the file may have

If you have access to a Windows version of Excel, it has a repair feature
that can sometimes recover corrupted files. If not, if you could forward the
file to me, I can try recovering it for you. I could also investigate to see
if I can figure out how the file became corrupted in the first place.

Also, just to be sure, are you running the 12.1.4 version of Office? It's
very important to keep up-to-date with the most recent updates.

Thanks,

Pat McMillan
patmcmil.RemoveThis@microsoft.com


On 11/24/08 9:03 PM, in article 59b615ef.0.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "David
Hille " <> wrote:

> I had the exact thing happen to me on a very important excel file.
> use it every day. bought a file recovery program with no succes. Don't waste
> your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8.
> HELP

--
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
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Same thing happened to us. We opened a file on Friday, no problems. Today it won't open in excel (mac and pc), open office, iwork, google docs, box.net. This is not fun and it is an important document. Also, suddenly having problems with other files as well.

Is there any chance you could send me a file with this problem? We would
like to investigate and can try to repair it.

Thanks,

Pat


On 12/1/08 8:55 PM, in article 59b615ef.2.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "RK" <RK>
wrote:

> Same thing happened to us. We opened a file on Friday, no problems. Today it
> won't open in excel (mac and pc), open office, iwork, google docs, box.net.
> This is not fun and it is an important document. Also, suddenly having
> problems with other files as well.

--
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

fyi Pat, it seems that the drive was going bad but the only files with any data corruption on them are the Excel files. Not sure why this is.

Pat,,

Same problem. How can I send you a file?

- Thanks!

> Is there any chance you could send me a file with this problem? We would
> like to investigate and can try to repair it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat
>
>
> On 12/1/08 8:55 PM, in article 59b615ef.2.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "RK"
> wrote:
>
> > Same thing happened to us. We opened a file on Friday, no problems. Today it
> > won't open in excel (mac and pc), open office, iwork, google docs, box.net.
> > This is not fun and it is an important document. Also, suddenly having
> > problems with other files as well.
>
> --
> Pat McMillan
> Macintosh Business Unit
> Microsoft Corp.
> This posting is provided &#65533;AS IS&#65533; with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
>

Please send the file to patmcmil.DeleteThis@microsoft.com.

Thanks,

Pat


On 12/3/08 2:41 PM, in article 59b615ef.5.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"WLS@officeformac.com" <WLS.DeleteThis@officeformac.com> wrote:

> Pat,,
>
> Same problem. How can I send you a file?
>
> - Thanks!
>
>> Is there any chance you could send me a file with this problem? We would
>> like to investigate and can try to repair it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> On 12/1/08 8:55 PM, in article 59b615ef.2.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "RK"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Same thing happened to us. We opened a file on Friday, no problems. Today it
>>> won't open in excel (mac and pc), open office, iwork, google docs, box.net.
>>> This is not fun and it is an important document. Also, suddenly having
>>> problems with other files as well.
>>
>> --
>> Pat McMillan
>> Macintosh Business Unit
>> Microsoft Corp.
>> This posting is provided &#65533;AS IS&#65533; with no warranties, and
>> confers no rights.
>>
>>
>>

--
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I am having the same problem and have sent you the file Pat. Has this been solved yet? This thread looks about a week+ old.

I am having the same problem -- Pat, I just emailed you my file. Can you
please help? I am desperate!

Thanks!

Jsoy

"Pat McMillan" wrote:

> If you have access to a Windows version of Excel, it has a repair feature
> that can sometimes recover corrupted files. If not, if you could forward the
> file to me, I can try recovering it for you. I could also investigate to see
> if I can figure out how the file became corrupted in the first place.
>
> Also, just to be sure, are you running the 12.1.4 version of Office? It's
> very important to keep up-to-date with the most recent updates.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat McMillan
> patmcmil.DeleteThis@microsoft.com
>
>
> On 11/24/08 9:03 PM, in article 59b615ef.0.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "David
> Hille " <> wrote:
>
> > I had the exact thing happen to me on a very important excel file.
> > use it every day. bought a file recovery program with no succes. Don't waste
> > your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8.
> > HELP
>
> --
> Pat McMillan
> Macintosh Business Unit
> Microsoft Corp.
> This posting is provided Ā³AS ISĀ² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
>

I received the file from Pete and found that the file format was .xlsb, but
the file's extension was .xlsx. When the extension was changed to .xlsb, the
file opened just fine.

I'm unfortunately not sure how the file format changed initially.

Thanks,

Pat


On 12/14/08 11:16 AM, in article 59b615ef.7.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Pete"
<Pete> wrote:

> I am having the same problem and have sent you the file Pat. Has this been
> solved yet? This thread looks about a week+ old.

--
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Thanks. Yes, I received your file and was able to recover it in Windows
Excel 2007. I've sent you the repaired file and am investigating the
corrupted file you sent.

Thanks,

Pat


On 12/14/08 5:25 PM, in article
10CA6B61-2504-41EB-9596-32FD089FE784.DeleteThis@microsoft.com, "MacinSF"
<MacinSF.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I am having the same problem -- Pat, I just emailed you my file. Can you
> please help? I am desperate!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jsoy
>
> "Pat McMillan" wrote:
>
>> If you have access to a Windows version of Excel, it has a repair feature
>> that can sometimes recover corrupted files. If not, if you could forward the
>> file to me, I can try recovering it for you. I could also investigate to see
>> if I can figure out how the file became corrupted in the first place.
>>
>> Also, just to be sure, are you running the 12.1.4 version of Office? It's
>> very important to keep up-to-date with the most recent updates.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pat McMillan
>> patmcmil.DeleteThis@microsoft.com
>>
>>
>> On 11/24/08 9:03 PM, in article 59b615ef.0.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "David
>> Hille " <> wrote:
>>
>>> I had the exact thing happen to me on a very important excel file.
>>> use it every day. bought a file recovery program with no succes. Don't waste
>>> your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8.
>>> HELP
>>
>> --
>> Pat McMillan
>> Macintosh Business Unit
>> Microsoft Corp.
>> This posting is provided ©ųAS IS©÷ with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>>
>>
>>

--
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ”°AS IS”± with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Thank Pat - I REALLY appreciate it! Note to others out there -- Google Apps
did not open my file but I downloaded IWork free trial and "Numbers" was able
to open it and export it back to excel.

Also, Pat fixed it!! Thanks!

"Pat McMillan" wrote:

> Thanks. Yes, I received your file and was able to recover it in Windows
> Excel 2007. I've sent you the repaired file and am investigating the
> corrupted file you sent.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat
>
>
> On 12/14/08 5:25 PM, in article
> 10CA6B61-2504-41EB-9596-32FD089FE784.RemoveThis@microsoft.com, "MacinSF"
> <MacinSF.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having the same problem -- Pat, I just emailed you my file. Can you
> > please help? I am desperate!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jsoy
> >
> > "Pat McMillan" wrote:
> >
> >> If you have access to a Windows version of Excel, it has a repair feature
> >> that can sometimes recover corrupted files. If not, if you could forward the
> >> file to me, I can try recovering it for you. I could also investigate to see
> >> if I can figure out how the file became corrupted in the first place.
> >>
> >> Also, just to be sure, are you running the 12.1.4 version of Office? It's
> >> very important to keep up-to-date with the most recent updates.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Pat McMillan
> >> patmcmil.RemoveThis@microsoft.com
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/24/08 9:03 PM, in article 59b615ef.0.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "David
> >> Hille " <> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I had the exact thing happen to me on a very important excel file.
> >>> use it every day. bought a file recovery program with no succes. Don't waste
> >>> your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8.
> >>> HELP
> >>
> >> --
> >> Pat McMillan
> >> Macintosh Business Unit
> >> Microsoft Corp.
> >> This posting is provided Ā³AS ISĀ² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Pat McMillan
> Macintosh Business Unit
> Microsoft Corp.
> This posting is provided ā€œAS ISā€ with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
>

Gack! I have the same problem all of the sudden. One of my excel files, which I use all the time, is suddenly "not in a recognizable format."

Tried opening in Windows, Numbers, etc., won't work.

Can I send it in for review? It is sensitive information, but I would rather recover it than start over.

Please advise,
Rebecca
rebhowald.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com

Hi Pat,

I've just e-mailed you directly with a couple of files that have been doing this to me. The common feature for me on this has been the use of a pivot table within the file.

I've downgraded to excel 2004 to resolve a number of issues I'm having with Excel 2008 and this problem has occurred in a file I created and worked on in Excel 2004, so it's not just an 08 problem by the looks of it.

Numbers will open the file without problem!

now if only Numbers did pivot tables, I'd have the perfect answer

HELP!!

Jason
mail RemoveThis @jasonprice.org.uk