[mso] Error Messsage: "Removed Feature: External formula ..."

  • From: larryspcremedies@xxxxxxx
  • To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:07:17 -0400

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

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