Opening an Excel 97

[oldbbplayer]

I have a file that I need to open that was created in Excel 97 or an earlier
version. When I try to open the file with Excel 2003, I get a message that
the file is in an "unrecognizable format." Is there any need for special
software to open such files? Unfortunately I do not have any old versions of
Excel to try. Thanks, Fred.

 

[David Biddulph]

Excel 97 files should open quite happily in Excel 2003. It might be
interesting to see whether Open Office will open the file and save it in a
more recent version.

 

[Sandy Mann]

As I understand it all versions of Xl from XL97 to 2003 have the same format
and older versions should be opened without problem. It sound like you have
a corrupt file. Are you trying to open it from a floppy by any chance?

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[oldbbplayer]

That is a possibility, however it is located on my c: drive.