You'll have to ask the person sending you the file to save it into a format that
your copy of excel can read.

You could search eBay for a copy of xl97+. It can read all the versions through
xl2003--although it doesn't support all the features added in xl2k, xl2002,
xl2003.

Or maybe a free spreadsheet program would work for you:
http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

flopmax wrote:

I can't open the file to save it. I have tried going to windows explorer to
save a copy to my computer but it won't open the file for me to save in 5.0
format. I have tried to use search for files in excel. It finds the file on
the floppy but can't open or save it in the format needed.
Thanks
flopmax

"Norman Jones" wrote:

Hi Flopmax,

You would have to save the workbook in Excel 5 format:

File | Save As | In the 'Save as type' dropdown, select:

Microsoft Excel 5.0 / 95 workbook 9*.xls)

Note that features dependent on later versions will be lost!

Make sure that you save the workbook with a new name so that the current
(newer) version is not overwritten!

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Regards,
Norman



"flopmax" wrote in message
...
I have excel 5.0C and need to work with files from a newer version of
excel.
Everytime I try to open files from a newer version of excel, I get the
error
message that it is not in xls format. Is there a way around this?




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Dave Peterson