File in trial version of excel will not open now.

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to open an excel spreadsheet created in a trial version
of excel?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Excel 2003 trial version? Excel 97 or newer should be able to open it,
except that if the spreadsheet contains features that are new to Excel
2003, then those features will not be supported if the spreadsheet is
opened in an older Excel version. OpenOffice should be able to open the
spreadsheet too.

Excel 2007 trial version? If the spreadsheet is saved in the newer
Excel 2007 .xlsx format, then you need Excel 2007, or Excel
2000/2002/2003 with the Office 2007 compatibility pack installed. As
far as I know, OpenOffice cannot open .xlsx files. If the spreadsheet
is saved in the older Excel 97-2003 .xls format, then you can probably
use Excel 97 or newer or OpenOffice.

 

[Guest]

Hi, thanks for the info. I believe the trial version was 2007. I am
thinking I can download the Office 2007 compatibility pack?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Yes, the compatibility pack can be downloaded and is free, but only
works with certain versions of Office.

 

[Guest]

I have done just what has been said, it did work, but stopped sudenly! Now I
cannot open the files. The compatibility download now does not work!!! What
happened? Does anyone know?