recover damaged excel file
I have a workbook creater with Excel 2000 just a few days ago but there's no way to open it. Coud anyone give me any suggestion?
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Hi, what message do you get?, ask your IT department usually they backup all the files, did you send the file to somebody? "Nora_Italy" wrote: > I have a workbook creater with Excel 2000 just a few days ago but there's no > way to open it. Coud anyone give me any suggestion?
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Thank you Eduardo. I don't get any error message, the file just doesn't open. Unfortunatately we backup files only once a month and I created this one just a few days ago. "Eduardo" wrote: > Hi, > what message do you get?, ask your IT department usually they backup all the > files, did you send the file to somebody? > > "Nora_Italy" wrote: > > > I have a workbook creater with Excel 2000 just a few days ago but there's no > > way to open it. Coud anyone give me any suggestion?
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