Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / July 2008

Try opening the document in another programme such as Apple's 'Numbers',
or uploading it to GoogleDocs. If you can open it, make a slight change
then save it out in a format that Excel can read.

Nolie_Rules@officeformac.com wrote: > Version: 2008 > Operating System:
     Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) > Processor: Intel > > My system: > Macbook Pro
     - 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 duo, 4GB RAM > OS X 10.5.4 > Excel 2008 for Mac
     12.1.1 > > I have a budget spreadsheet that I've been using for 18 months
     and tend to update it every two weeks. It's ~2.2MB, has twelve worksheets
     and includes some graphs - nothing very special. > > Yesterday I modified
     it and saved it. This morning when I tried to open it I I received the
     message "Excel cannot open this file the file may have been damaged or
     modified from its original format". I've googled the error message and
     tried a few of the suggestions like change the file extension to .xml
     and .xlsx and re-open to no avail. > > Any suggestions would be greatly
     appreciated. Try opening the document in another programme such as Apple's
     'Numbers', or uploading it to GoogleDocs. If you can open it, make a slight
     change then save it out in a format that Excel can read.

     -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP

Thanks Barry -Numbers opened the troubled spreadsheet immediately and the export back to Excel worked - Thanks.

All seems functional but the worksheets have been renamed (actually each sheet's name has been appended with a "- Table 1". A minor inconvenience.

Thanks Barry.