Saving an Excel 2007 spreadsheet in Works format

[statistica]

I'm using Office 2007 and want to send a spreadsheet to somebody who only has
MS Works. I can't see any .wks option in the 'Save as' list. I've tried
saving it in the Excel 97-2003 format but it doesn't work. Any ideas?

 

[Bob]

Excel Viewer 2003 would work if all you want the recipient to do is view it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN

To use the spreadsheet they can download and install the free open source
program OpenOffice.
http://www.openoffice.org/

 

[Jon Peltier]

Excel and Works do not share any common file formats, as far as I know. I
tried running Works to see (it came bundled on this computer), but
unfortunately it appears that the Office 2007 beta trashed some of Works'
DLLs, and I have no way to reinstall Works on this machine.

- Jon

 

[statistica]

Many thanks - I hope that this doesn't cause you a problem in the future..
In the end I saved the file in 97 - 2003 format and the user went into Works
and opened the document as an xls file. This seems to work.

 

[statistica]

Thanks for the thought but the recipient does need to modify it. In the end
I saved the file in 97 - 2003 format and the user went into Works and opened
the document as an xls file. This seems to work.

 

[Jon Peltier]

I guess it doesn't cause me any trouble. I'd installed the 2007 beta a year
and a half ago, and noticed today that (a) I had Works installed and (b)
Works didn't work. Since I haven't needed Works since I bought this
computer, I've uninstalled it for good. I did learn from your response to
Bob that Works can interpret Excel files.

- Jon