A friend asked me to help him with a problem he's having with an Excel spreadsheet (Excel 2007). Apparently he receives a spreadsheet from a customer. He is able to open it and make changes and saves it. Then later, when he tries to open the spreadsheet again, he gets the following error messages: [snip] Excel found unreadable content in ��� Do you want to recover the contents of this wokbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click yes. [/snip] Then [snip] Removed Feature: External formula reference from /xl/externalLinks/externalLink8.xml part (Cached values from external formula reference) Removed Records: Formula from /xl/worksheets/sheet62.xml part Removed Records: Formula from /xl/calcChain.xml part (Calculation properties) [/snip] WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS STUFF MEAN? A Google search doesn't provide any useful links. "Help me Obi-wan, you're my only hope" Larry ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************