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Today I wanted to open an excel sheet and got a pop-up window that the .xls file format is not valid. I opened that document many times before.
WTH?? I need that document...
Today I wanted to open an excel sheet and got a pop-up window that the .xls file format is not valid. I opened that document many times before.
WTH?? I need that document...
If the file is corrupt, just try and recover the "data" using a different software and then re-convert it into an Excel file.
Open it with Google spreadsheets or something. If that doesn't work - maybe trying opening it using some statistical software (most of them read excel files).
<meh> I often think Microsoft software is DESIGNED to self-destruct. The .XLS format requirements changed so many times in the mid 1990s that I refused to do export data files to fit it and went with CSV and flat files instead. If you modified an .XLS file with a different build of Excel, there is no guarantee that your older version will read it.
The file worked just great two days ago, and I didn't do any changes to my computer. Also I was able to open it in Word.
So, I have the file now, just need to create a new spread sheet...
Still, I think it's odd, how a file can get bad practically overnight, or why .xls is not a valid (excel) file format.
Normally, when file is corrupted, I would get a pop-up window saying co.
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