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Older excel won't open spread sheet
Hello,
I created a spread sheet at home with Excel XP or 2000 (not sure what its called) and e-mailed it to myself at work. We have an ancient version of Excel on Win 98 at work, ver 5.0a. When I try to open the spread sheet it says it is not a valid Excel format. It has an '.xls after the name of the file. Isn't that a valid format?? Please Help!! |
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Older excel won't open spread sheet
Steve,
Excel version 5 uses a file format called BIFF5, and Excel 97/2000/2002/2003 uses a file format called BIFF8. Excel 5 cannot open BIFF8 files, which is why you get the "invalid file format" message, even though both file formats use the "xls" file extension. You can, in later versions of Excel, store the file in the earlier format when you do a Save As, that will allow Excel 5 to open the file. In the Save As dialog, change "Save As Type" to "Excel 97 & 5/95 Workbook". Of course, you won't be able to access newer features in the earlier version. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Steve" wrote in message ... Hello, I created a spread sheet at home with Excel XP or 2000 (not sure what its called) and e-mailed it to myself at work. We have an ancient version of Excel on Win 98 at work, ver 5.0a. When I try to open the spread sheet it says it is not a valid Excel format. It has an '.xls after the name of the file. Isn't that a valid format?? Please Help!! |
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Older excel won't open spread sheet
You can get a free Excel viewer from Microsoft. I do not know if it will
allow you to copy/paste what you view to your version of Excel. Kim "Steve" wrote in message ... Hello, I created a spread sheet at home with Excel XP or 2000 (not sure what its called) and e-mailed it to myself at work. We have an ancient version of Excel on Win 98 at work, ver 5.0a. When I try to open the spread sheet it says it is not a valid Excel format. It has an '.xls after the name of the file. Isn't that a valid format?? Please Help!! |
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