Corrupt Files that open in Word 97, not in 2000

[angkol]

Hi all. This one's a bit strange. We are currently in the process of upgrading our users from Office 97 to Office 2000. (We're not exactly "bleeding-edge" around here.) Since we have upgraded one user in particular, he has found several of his Excel files that give the error of

"An error occured while loading 'Sheet121111111111111111111'. Do you want to continue loading the project?"

When I choose yes, it seems to bring up the spreadsheet, but then immediatly give the error:

"Excel.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You need to restart the program. An error log has been created."

I don't even know where to look for the error log.

The weird thing, is that we can open the file in Word 97. Once it is open, we can't save it, even under a different name. It just says "can't save." Our work around has been to copy and paste all the sheets into a new workbook with 97, then open with Word 2000 and save. But this is very tedius and would require us to keep a copy of 97 running on one of the machines. (Not to mention that the user having these problems is my boss's boss.)

Any one know what's going on here? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[angkol]

Oh, If I hit "no" to not continue loading the project, I get a "Device I/O Error." Then Excel stays open without the workbook being open. (The Title bar does still display the name of the workbook.) I have installed Service packs through SP3.