A friend sent me a file that was allegedly an Excel file that she couldn't open.
Sure enough, Excel opened up when the file was double clicked and then showed nothing. To tabs, no option to do anything and no data.
I attempted to open it up in repair mode and got the same.
Strangely it opened successfully in OpenOffice so I was at least able to retrieve the data from it and re-save it in Excel format.
I have no idea what may have happened to the original file - I can only guess it was corrupted in some way.
I did find it amusing that OpenOffice opened up an Excel file that MS Excel couldn't though! I appreciate it will access the data in a different way but I would have expected Excel to get closer than it did!
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