Microsoft recommends several methods for recovering
Excel data from corrupt spreadsheets that won't open in
this article: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-
help/repairing-corrupted-files-in-excel-
HA001034656.aspx. The external reference and the chart
macro methods have not yet been implemented.

Excel Recovery makes it easy to follow the
recommendations to open your corrupt file in Word,
setting calculations to manual, in the Excel Viewer,
opening with open & repair and in safe mode. You first
select the file, and then push one of six buttons which
invokes those reported opening methods. The Open and
Repair methods is split into two options, standard open
and repair and open and extract data.

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