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I have installed Office 95 on my laptop that runs with XP home edition, I can
not open excel files from my new lap top that exist on my desktop on my home network , I get a message that says file format is not valid, How can I get around this problem! |
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xl97 changed file formats.
xl95 can't read the normal format when files are saved in xl97+. You could go back to xl97+ and save the file as "excel 5.0/95" or even save it as a combination file: "excel 97-200? & 5.0/95 workbook" Some new features that have been added in xl97+ will be lost (formats especially, but only if they were used). I've never used it, but you may find OpenOffice nicer than xl95: http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD And if all you want to do is look at the file, MS makes a viewer for excel: http://office.microsoft.com/download.../xlviewer.aspx And if you visit eBay, you may find a pretty cheap version of xl2k. Reed M wrote: I have installed Office 95 on my laptop that runs with XP home edition, I can not open excel files from my new lap top that exist on my desktop on my home network , I get a message that says file format is not valid, How can I get around this problem! -- Dave Peterson |
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