Opening an Office 2003 Excel doc with Office 2000 NT

[Roxy]

I created an Excel workbook with Office 2003 and another users wants to open
the workbook (template) with Office 2000 NT... they can't seem to do it...

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a bunch!

~Roxy

 

[Dave Peterson]

xl97-xl2003 all share the same file format.

Any of those versions should be able to open any workbook saved in any of those
versions.

Got any other details?

 

[Roxy]

The workbook is saved as a template (.xlt) so when you first try to open it
you get a dialog box that says "Windows cannot open this file: blah blah blah
Select the prgram from a list. Then after you click OK a new dialog box
SHOULD pop up and asks "Choose the program you want to use to open this file:"
Reccommended Programs:
Microsoft Office Excel

She gets the first Windows box, but after she clicks OK she doesn't get the
second box so nothing happens and she can't open my file I sent her.
Does any of the make sense??

Thanks ROXY

 

[Dave Peterson]

I think that when she opens the file, she shouldn't get any dialog box at all.

In fact, the file shouldn't open. Since it's a template file, she should get a
new workbook based on that template.

If she's getting a dialog box, I'd tell her to try to reregister excel:

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

 

[Roxy]

Ok, I will have her try that. Thanks for all the speedy responses!
Have a great weekend!!
~Roxy