Is Lotus 1-2-3 conversion possible?

[George]

Am working with new OfficeXP (2002)...ExcelXP. Just bought the Office 2003
upgrade, but haven't yet installed.



If I do File>Open, ExcelXP easily reads old Lotus .wk4 and similar files,
but NOT newer Lotus files like filename.123. (Mine are simple files, no
passwords or unusual things).



I can't go back into Lotus (it's gone), re-open the document, then save-down
as filename.xls. I'm unable to find any 123-to-xls converter on either
Office website or on PC in Add/remove programs under Excel.



Is there a workaround? Why would Microsoft leave off a filter as important
as this one? Does Microsoft eventually catch up and add filters?



Would appreciate suggestions.



Thanks,

George

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
find below a repost from Harlan Grove covering this topic:
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This may not come up as often now as it did, say, 3 or 4 years ago, but
there's no way to open .123 files in any version of Excel, and there's
very
likely *never* going to be. Microsoft doesn't need to win away 123
users any
more. The few hundred who remain aren't going to give up 123 no matter
what
Microsoft does, and Microsoft isn't likely to expend any resources on a
handful of potential new users.

The *ONLY* software that can do anything with .123 files (other than
hex
editors) are 32-bit versions of 123 itself, Quattro Pro version 10 and
later
(don't bother with QP9, very buggy), and (as claimed in its marketing
materials) DataViz's ConversionPlus. That's all. Nothing else.