pc wont open mac excel file

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corinne paterson

Help! My original file was a PC excel spreadsheet. I opened it and made
changes on the mac OS 10. Now the PC recognises it is an excel file but cant
open it.

Comes through as gobblie gook eg 4$ë??.iÁ?G!·"¿»??ØÏuÚÌ#3?ä$î:?

Any ideas, where I don't have to go back home and save the file into another
format.

cheers
Corinne Paterson
 
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Bernard REY

corinne paterson wrote :
Help! My original file was a PC excel spreadsheet. I opened it and made
changes on the mac OS 10. Now the PC recognises it is an excel file but cant
open it.

Comes through as gobblie gook eg 4$ë??.iÁ?G!·"¿»??ØÏuÚÌ#3?ä$î:?

Any ideas, where I don't have to go back home and save the file into another
format.

Could you mention the versions (including the applied updates) of Excel used
on each machine ? Make sure you Mac Excel version is updated to 10.1.5
 
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corinne paterson

Fixed it. I went home saved the file as an older version of excel and the PC
here at work opened this saved as file.

Corinne
 
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Bob Greenblatt

Fixed it. I went home saved the file as an older version of excel and the PC
here at work opened this saved as file.

Corinne
Corinne, You shouldn't have to do that. If you are double clicking it in
windows to open it, does the file have an XLS extension? If you open the
file from Excel's File menu, then the extension doesn't make any difference
as long as you have set the open selector to choose all files.
 

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