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Name: girgav
Date: June 3, 2003 at 03:59:53 Pacific
OS: Windows any
CPU/Ram: PIV 256 MB RAM
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Hi

Any freewares available on Internet to recover a damaged Excel worksheet ?I know of www.cimaware.com or www.officerecovery.com
but they are costly.

Thanks in advance
girgav



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Response Number 1
Name: SN
Date: June 3, 2003 at 11:58:42 Pacific
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You'll have to be more specific as to how the excel sheet was damaged, what media it is on (hd, floppy, etc.), and what happens when you try to open it. If it's a simple recovery issue (like you or a virus formatted your hd or something), I usually use getdataback, available on download.com. The trial version should be enough to get one excel file back.
-SN


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Response Number 2
Name: girgav
Date: June 3, 2003 at 23:19:58 Pacific
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Thanks SN , but that does not solve my problem. My Hard Disk is OK and there is no virus infection. However, somehow , one Excel file is corrupted, dont know how. It had lot of data.Want to recover that data. I do not have a second copy elsewhere.
Very critical .......


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Response Number 3
Name: A Certain TH
Date: June 9, 2003 at 02:17:58 Pacific
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The response you got from SN was about the best you could expect given the information. The limitations he outlined should be answered because the best solution for you will vary.


However - one quick thing to try is this: Make a new sheet and link cell A1 to cell A1 in your corrupted file. If it works, then you can copy that formula across the whole spreadsheet (be reasonable about the range, though!) and you will at least retrieve all the data you had - if not the formulae. You can repeat this for each sheet (sheet name info may still be visible in the properties of the file)

Good Luck
Tom


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