Access 2000 corrupted Excel 2000 writing to linked table - help!

[Guest]

I created an Access DB and created a table linked to an Excel spreadsheet. I think I accidentally typed into one of the cells in Access causing a write to the Excel file. When I later tried to open the Excel file in Excel, Excel crashed

I've lost about a 3 week's updates to our membership database for our small non-profit

Is there any way to uncorrupt the file? It cannot be opened in Excel, nor in Access via the link. The file size seems too big too (gone from about 600K to 1.5M, and I don't think I made any edits that would account for that).

But a hex dump of the file does show that there is still data inside it..

Thanks

 

[Nick Hodge]

Michael

You could try someone with a later version of XL (XP or 2003). They
generally handle these types of situation better.

Have you tried opening it in Word? You will only get data but worth a shot

You may also try some linking formulas to get the data out of the corrupt
workbook into a new one

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)

I created an Access DB and created a table linked to an Excel spreadsheet.

I think I accidentally typed into one of the cells in Access causing a write
to the Excel file. When I later tried to open the Excel file in Excel,
Excel crashed!

I've lost about a 3 week's updates to our membership database for our small non-profit.

Is there any way to uncorrupt the file? It cannot be opened in Excel, nor

in Access via the link. The file size seems too big too (gone from about
600K to 1.5M, and I don't think I made any edits that would account for
that).

 

[Guest]

Nick - thanks for your help. WORD crashed just the same as Excel trying to open the file, but I was able to link cells in another spreadsheet. Unfortunately, the file appears to be rather corrupted, as data is in the wrong cells. (i.e. B7 has the data from C13

Looks like I'm stuck reentering data..

 

[Kent]

If you're ok with zipping and sending it, I'd be willing
to look it over and see if I can resolve any of it?

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-----Original Message-----
I created an Access DB and created a table linked to an

Excel spreadsheet. I think I accidentally typed into one
of the cells in Access causing a write to the Excel file.
When I later tried to open the Excel file in Excel, Excel
crashed!

I've lost about a 3 week's updates to our membership

database for our small non-profit.

Is there any way to uncorrupt the file? It cannot be

opened in Excel, nor in Access via the link. The file
size seems too big too (gone from about 600K to 1.5M, and
I don't think I made any edits that would account for
that).

 

[JMC]

Try Excel Viewer. Sometimes, you can copy and paste
values.

-----Original Message-----
Nick - thanks for your help. WORD crashed just the same

as Excel trying to open the file, but I was able to link
cells in another spreadsheet. Unfortunately, the file
appears to be rather corrupted, as data is in the wrong
cells. (i.e. B7 has the data from C13)