Excel Versions

[Mike Campbell]

I can't seem to open excel 2000 files with Office 95
version. Anyway around this problem. Thanks,

Mike C.

 

[Andy Wiggins]

From the menu, File > Save As, then in the "Save as type" drop down (at the
bottom of the dialog) choose "Microsoft Excel 5.0/95 Workbook"

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Andy Wiggins
www.BygSoftware.com
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"The Excel Auditor" and "Byg Tools for VBA"

 

[Jim Rech]

Further to Andy's reply, the Excel file format changed with Excel 97.
Earlier Excel versions cannot open Excel 97+ files. To open an Excel 97
file in Excel 95 you'd have to save it in Excel 95 format (as Andy said)
from Excel 2000. Any post-Excel 95 features would be lost of course.

 

[Lady Layla]

In Excel 2000, you need to save the file as Excel 5.0/95 Note though that
depending on the complexity of the files you may lose things.


: I can't seem to open excel 2000 files with Office 95
: version. Anyway around this problem. Thanks,
:
: Mike C.

 

[Harald Staff]

Hi Mike

Adding tho the others: there are applications that can open those files, the second best
start with open and countinues with office dot org. But still, Excel 2000 is the very best
and it should probably be possible to find pretty cheap at the secondhand market. Buy one,
it's worth it.

People will reply that XP or 2003 are better than 2000. Not my opinion, but worth
mentioning in this context is that those versions have "product activation" and a
secondhand copy is therefore worthless.