Excel 97 for Mac won't open in Excel for Office XP

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Sarah - 24 Oct 2003 19:56 GMT

Hi, I am trying to open an Excel document in Windows XP (Office XP Professional) that was created on a Macintosh using OS 9 and Excel 97/98. The file is unrecognized, but can be (sort of) opened if I use the File Open Wizard and convert it using delimited width, although it removes all formatting and puts in a lot of extra characters and garbage. I need the file to open up relatively in the same way it looks on the Mac, because it has graphs in it.

Thanks so much,
Sarah

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Jan Karel Pieterse - 25 Oct 2003 18:24 GMT

Hi Sarah,

> Hi, I am trying to open an Excel document in Windows XP
> (Office XP Professional) that was created on a Macintosh
> using OS 9 and Excel 97/98. The file is unrecognized,

Try saving the file as an older Excel format (on the MAC).

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP

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- 30 Oct 2003 15:32 GMT

There may also be a Save As option to let you save it as
a PC version of the file.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, I am trying to open an Excel document in Windows XP (Office XP Professional) that was created on a Macintosh

using OS 9 and Excel 97/98. The file is unrecognized, but
can be (sort of) opened if I use the File Open Wizard and
convert it using delimited width, although it removes all
formatting and puts in a lot of extra characters and
garbage. I need the file to open up relatively in the
same way it looks on the Mac, because it has graphs in it.

>Thanks so much,
>Sarah
>.

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