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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / January 2009Excel cannot open this file the file may have been damaged or modified from its original format"
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I cannot open an excel spreadsheet I saved and I get the above message. Having read a previous blog I tried using Google Docs but there wasn't an option for a .xlsb file extension and my laptop does not have "numbers". Any other ideas how I can recover this file, or at least not create the same problem again? I had the exact thing happen to me on a very important excel file. use it every day. bought a file recovery program with no succes. Don't waste your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8. HELP If you have access to a Windows version of Excel, it has a repair feature that can sometimes recover corrupted files. If not, if you could forward the file to me, I can try recovering it for you. I could also investigate to see if I can figure out how the file became corrupted in the first place. Also, just to be sure, are you running the 12.1.4 version of Office? It's very important to keep up-to-date with the most recent updates. Thanks, Pat McMillan patmcmil@microsoft.com On 11/24/08 9:03 PM, in article 59b615ef.0@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "David Hille " <> wrote: > I had the exact thing happen to me on a very important excel file. > use it every day. bought a file recovery program with no succes. Don't waste > your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8. > HELP  SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. I am having the same problem -- Pat, I just emailed you my file. Can you please help? I am desperate! Thanks! Jsoy > If you have access to a Windows version of Excel, it has a repair feature > that can sometimes recover corrupted files. If not, if you could forward the [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8. > > HELP Thanks. Yes, I received your file and was able to recover it in Windows Excel 2007. I've sent you the repaired file and am investigating the corrupted file you sent. Thanks, Pat On 12/14/08 5:25 PM, in article 10CA6B61-2504-41EB-9596-32FD089FE784@microsoft.com, "MacinSF" > I am having the same problem -- Pat, I just emailed you my file. Can you > please help? I am desperate! [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >>> your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8. >>> HELP SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. Thank Pat - I REALLY appreciate it! Note to others out there -- Google Apps did not open my file but I downloaded IWork free trial and "Numbers" was able to open it and export it back to excel. Also, Pat fixed it!! Thanks! > Thanks. Yes, I received your file and was able to recover it in Windows > Excel 2007. I've sent you the repaired file and am investigating the [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >>> your money. Someone out there with the solution? l am using a power mac 8. > >>> HELP Same thing happened to us. We opened a file on Friday, no problems. Today it won't open in excel (mac and pc), open office, iwork, google docs, box.net. This is not fun and it is an important document. Also, suddenly having problems with other files as well. Is there any chance you could send me a file with this problem? We would like to investigate and can try to repair it. Thanks, Pat On 12/1/08 8:55 PM, in article 59b615ef.2@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "RK" <RK> wrote: > Same thing happened to us. We opened a file on Friday, no problems. Today it > won't open in excel (mac and pc), open office, iwork, google docs, box.net. > This is not fun and it is an important document. Also, suddenly having > problems with other files as well. SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. fyi Pat, it seems that the drive was going bad but the only files with any data corruption on them are the Excel files. Not sure why this is. Pat,, Same problem. How can I send you a file? - Thanks! > Is there any chance you could send me a file with this problem? We would > like to investigate and can try to repair it. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Microsoft Corp. > This posting is provided �AS IS� with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please send the file to patmcmil@microsoft.com. Thanks, Pat On 12/3/08 2:41 PM, in article 59b615ef.5@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Pat,, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> This posting is provided �AS IS� with no warranties, and >> confers no rights. SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. I am having the same problem and have sent you the file Pat. Has this been solved yet? This thread looks about a week+ old. I received the file from Pete and found that the file format was .xlsb, but the file's extension was .xlsx. When the extension was changed to .xlsb, the file opened just fine. I'm unfortunately not sure how the file format changed initially. Thanks, Pat On 12/14/08 11:16 AM, in article 59b615ef.7@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Pete" > I am having the same problem and have sent you the file Pat. Has this been > solved yet? This thread looks about a week+ old. SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. ???? Did you try opening it from the Excel File/Open menu? If it's just an extension thingy you should be able to open it that way, ... unless of course Office2008 has even MORE stupid things added that make it worse than Office04/X/97/...... > I received the file from Pete and found that the file format was .xlsb, but > the file's extension was .xlsx. When the extension was changed to .xlsb, the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > I am having the same problem and have sent you the file Pat. Has this been > > solved yet? This thread looks about a week+ old. SignatureTeam EM to the rescue! http://www.team-em.com I got Jason's file and am investigating. On 12/15/08 2:38 PM, in article carl-93B94F.17380315122008@reader.motzarella.org, "Carl Witthoft" <carl@witthoft.com> wrote: > ???? Did you try opening it from the Excel File/Open menu? If it's > just an extension thingy you should be able to open it that way, ... [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >>> I am having the same problem and have sent you the file Pat. Has this been >>> solved yet? This thread looks about a week+ old. SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. Gack! I have the same problem all of the sudden. One of my excel files, which I use all the time, is suddenly "not in a recognizable format." Tried opening in Windows, Numbers, etc., won't work. Can I send it in for review? It is sensitive information, but I would rather recover it than start over. Please advise, Rebecca rebhowald@yahoo.com Hi Pat, I've just e-mailed you directly with a couple of files that have been doing this to me. The common feature for me on this has been the use of a pivot table within the file. I've downgraded to excel 2004 to resolve a number of issues I'm having with Excel 2008 and this problem has occurred in a file I created and worked on in Excel 2004, so it's not just an 08 problem by the looks of it. Numbers will open the file without problem! now if only Numbers did pivot tables, I'd have the perfect answer ;) HELP!! Jason mail@jasonprice.org.uk I have a similar issue I think. Created a spreadsheet in Windows using Excel 2007 and emailed it to my GMAIL account. I cannot open it with Excel for MAC, I get the same message. I have tried saving it as both .xlsx and .xls formats without success. This is a brand new installation and first time I have tried to use MAC Office. I installed all the updates. Running version 12.1.5 Also cannot register on this damn site for some reason it wont let me...tried multiple times. twister68@gmail.com > I have a similar issue I think. Created a spreadsheet in Windows using Excel > 2007 and emailed it to my GMAIL account. I cannot open it with Excel for MAC, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > twister68@gmail.com Have you tried zipping it before sending it? I have sometimes been able to use the free OpenOffice.org spreadsheet application can open files that gave that error message: http://openoffice.org Hello good afternoon have problem in opening thefile the error message "the file is not a recognaizable format" pls help me Can you try manually changing the file's extension (to either .xls or .xlsx, depending on what version of Excel you're using) and then try to open it again? On 1/7/09 12:27 AM, in article 59b615ef.18@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "asa" > Hello > good afternoon > > have problem in opening thefile the error message "the file is not a > recognaizable format" pls help me SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. |
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