Corrupt Excel files created on my Mac

Help!
I recently created a basic Excel file on my iMac G5 using the Microsoft Excel program. I tried opening the spreadsheet and it states:
The file cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding.
I tried re-opening as as read-only, I tried re-locating the file to my external drive and I tried opening with Word. But, with no success.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi,
I think you need to recover the excel files. You may try Advanced Excel Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ This tool is rather useful in salvaging damaged Excel xls files.
Hope this will help.
Alan

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