Ok here's the problem,
I have a HP desktop which I have already installed Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 basic i think (the Office which had Word, Outlook and Excel).
Recently I'm encountering a problem which everytime I save an Excel document which I saved into .xls right? I can open the file normally after I saved it. But here's the real problem comes. After I give it a nice reboot, and I tried opening the .xls file again, the wordings inside seems to be running out of place and I can still see my previous typed documents with some extra @@@@#$#$!&@#^^$&#! fonts like this.
Every .xls file that I save has the same format where the first column consists of @@@@@ and there's like 4-5 lines of them.

I'm sorry but I dont have a screenshot of the problem as it is actually from my friend's pc and he's now back to KL.

I've tried re-formatting the windows again as I thought the Windows is corrupted and the same problem occurs again right after a fresh installation.

Can any sifus help me with this? I dont know whether I'm posting at the right thread but please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Wonka

This post has been edited by Wonka: Sep 18 2008, 11:40 AM

maybe you must re-installing office xp,

I Tried this before.. reinstall microsoft office also can't solved it..
i dunno what problem occur. but after i Reformat Whole windows then only can be solved..

you are using P* version? Maybe your installer is corrupted or have virus.

reinstall or repair

TS did say he formatted and reinstall the whole thing.

actually its office 2003 and i've already tried still wouldnt work

nope its not a "Jack Sparrow" version but an original version for both office and windows

well as i have mentioned i have already tried reinstall windows

u read my post correctly thanks

Might be a font issue. Does it happen with xls files from other computers? And since it's an ori installation, i think you can call MS to ask about it.

well the files that i have saved cannot be read by other comps
the same thing came out
and i dont think its fonts cause im using Times New Roman.

Anybody has other solutions other than re-formatting windows??

This post has been edited by Wonka: Sep 19 2008, 09:43 AM

I think this issue came from conflict between excel 2003 VS excel 2007, any file from office 2007 cant be read in older versions of office system,if u want to use it in older versions of office like 2003,u need to change it back to compatible mode 2003-2007 mode before u can use it on office 2003.hope this will help.

Your computer have two partition?

actually its a fresh installation and there's no office 2007 installed actually

yah 2 partition but what does it have to do with it?

try install MS Office 2007 and "open with" with it.

actually the files were tried on other pc and the result is OK!
but i dont really know what the hell is the problem
maybe i will try re-installing windows and everything allllll over again

I think may be is the virus problem, and the virus is store in your second partition, so you try to format your second partition as well.

i doubt it cause its a fresh installation with no backup and both partition deleted