How to fix a corrupted Excel-file ?

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3 total messages Started by Kansala Klaus Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:06

Author: Kansala Klaus
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:06

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Hello World,

is there any program out there (PD or commercial) to fix a corrupted
excel file which is loaded 95 percent correct until it stops with
an error message.

Any hints are highly appreciated!

Regards

Klaus

Re: How to fix a corrupted Excel-file ?

Author: *Steve White
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 01:11

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In <kka.720216369@tko.vtt.fi> kka@tko.vtt.fi writes:

> Hello World,
> 
> is there any program out there (PD or commercial) to fix a corrupted
> excel file which is loaded 95 percent correct until it stops with
> an error message.
> 
> Any hints are highly appreciated!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Klaus

Two possibilities that I know:

1. MacTools supposedly has a module that recovers Excel/Mac files, but I
haven't used it yet.

2. Open a new spreadsheet, select within the new sheet a range of cells
that would cover the corrupted sheet, enter into cell A1 of the new sheet
an external reference to the old sheet's cell range, make the entry
an array (in Mac/Excel, command-enter). Hopefully, then you then will
see in the new sheet the values in the old one. If you wish, you can then
do copy/paste special-values command to convert the formulas in the new 
to the values in the old one.

Good luck!

Steve
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Re: How to fix a corrupted Excel-file ?

Author: hausmann
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 04:15

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In article <kka.720216369@tko.vtt.fi>, kka@tko.vtt.fi (Kansala Klaus) writes:
> Hello World,
> 
> is there any program out there (PD or commercial) to fix a corrupted
> excel file which is loaded 95 percent correct until it stops with
> an error message.
> 
> Any hints are highly appreciated!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Klaus

The latest version of Central Pt Software's MacTools claims to fix corrupted
Excel file.

-Tom

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