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2003 excel error after an update, file is corrupt and cannot be recovered

I have an application developed with vb.6 that has excel 97 2000 and 2003 capabilities. Recently after an automatic update, evry time I extract a file in excel format within my application and then open this excel file on the desktop, it says that the file is corrupt and cannot be recovered. is there a fix for that strictly for vb6 applications, maybe a dll or ocx file that gets unregistered or is deleted.

thank you very much

Robberbaron (robr)

is it files saved in all XL versions ?

From what do you extract the XLS file ?

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robberbaron,
thank you for replying.
the report can be extracted with all versions of excel except 2007. the application itself has the ability to extract the report as a excel document which works great but every time a microsoft office update occurs, the excel file shows as being corrupted after it has been extracted.

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systems_ax

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robberbaron,
is there a way to fix the issue without altering the code? excel files to extract great and work on the machines, however, when a microsoft update occurs on any machine the extraction fails.
thank you

Robberbaron (robr)

without seeing the current app & having the error occur in front of me, i am not capable to working out the root cause of the error & thus not able to help fix.

Is it a particular update that caused the error ?

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robberbaron,
thank you