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by briannarivas 2 views

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Microsoft Excel:
A user created a file under excel a few days ago and the next time they tried to access the file they receive: File is not in recognizable format. I've tried performing some of the suggestions to recover the file, but none seem tohelp. I also restored the file from back up, up to the point when the file was in normal order, but I still get the same error. Running Office 2000 Professional. I also tried using office 97 to open it with. No luck. Thank you for yor help.

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by jctech

What version of excel was the file created with? If created in Excel2000, you will need to open with Excel2000. Any earlier version of Excel will not be able to recognize the file format. You shouldn't have the problem, however, if the file was created in Excel97 and you try to open it with Excel2000.

by zlatin zlatev

First of all check wether you have an Excel Macro Virus.
Also check your disk(ettes) for physical problems.

After that make sure you are not using macros, pivot tables and huge charts in your excel file.
If so remove them and save the file withnew name with "save as". After that work with the new version of the file and recreate the charts and pivots

Hope this helps,
Zlatin Zlatev

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