Cannot open Excel X workbook on Windows Excel 2000

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Tom Christopher

I am creating a spreadsheet on Mac using Offic X Excel. When I send this
spreadsheet to my co-workers who are using Windows XP Professional and
Excel 2000 they recieve the following error message when they are opening
up the workbook. "Microsoft Excel for Windows has encountered a problem
and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." The message box
then has additional buttons at the bottom to Send Error Report or Don't
Send. I sent the error report the first time but not the other. I have tried
saving my Excel X spreasheet in an older Excel format like "Excel 97-2002
and 5.0/95" but same problem. This spreadsheet does contain macros and
links to other sheets inside the workbook. Help!
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Tom Christopher said:
I am creating a spreadsheet on Mac using Offic X Excel. When I send this
spreadsheet to my co-workers who are using Windows XP Professional and
Excel 2000 they recieve the following error message when they are opening
up the workbook. "Microsoft Excel for Windows has encountered a problem
and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." The message box
then has additional buttons at the bottom to Send Error Report or Don't
Send. I sent the error report the first time but not the other. I have
tried
saving my Excel X spreasheet in an older Excel format like "Excel 97-2002
and 5.0/95" but same problem. This spreadsheet does contain macros and
links to other sheets inside the workbook. Help!

Office v.X and Office 2000 use exactly the same file format, so they
should be entirely compatible.

Saving to XL97/95 will do you no good - it saves a copy in both XL97 and
XL95 format in one file - Xl2000 will only read the XL97 version.

Make sure your coworkers have completely updated their XL2000.

Sometimes modules get corrupted, especially when they've been heavily
edited. See this previous thread from the archives for ways to mitigate
that:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=301801c47e5f$d1fd2e40$a501280a@phx
..gbl
 

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