Dealing with the frustration of a damaged Excel workbook? Can’t open and access your important data? here is what you need – try these two tricks to repair and recover your work.
Tip 1. If Excel can’t open the corrupted workbook, there are several other programs you can use to try to open it. Microsoft Tools is one option:
1. From the Windows XP Start menu, choose All Programs.
2. Select Microsoft Office, then Microsoft Office Tools and Microsoft Office Application Recovery.
3. In the dialogue box that appears, choose Microsoft Office Excel.
4. Click “Recover Application”.
Tip 2.The steps for manually recovering a workbook are quite simple.
1. Select “Open” from the File menu. In Excel 2007, click the Office button and select “Open”.
2. Using the Look In control, locate and specify the corrupted workbook.
3. From the Open button’s dropdown list, choose “Open and Repair”.
4. If this is your first attempt to manually recover the workbook, click “Repair” in the dialogue box that appears.
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