Corrupted Spread Sheet files

[Brian Astill]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 00:37, drew einhorn wrote:
> My daughter has been having problems with her
> Open Office Spreadsheet files getting corrupted
> and Open Office won't open them anymore.
>
> Any recovery tools or techniques you can
> suggest.  They were saved in .xls format.

Simple but might work - try Gnumeric.
I had a look at an xls file using Kwrite. selected the data and 
pasted (middle click) into OOo Spread.  That worked quite well.

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Regards,
Brian