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Message: [QUOTE="frugalone, post: 6791752"] Hi Bob, Well, something is fishy. I have tried two methods: 1. Start Excel and use file:open 2. Double cliak on the file. Using either method Excel activates its Text Import tool and changes everything to text or it states incompatile format. Curiously, some file opened fine - simple ones with no links, or single spreadsheets. If the workbook has links to other sheets in the workbook or to other workbooks it says either incompatible format or converts to text. Now, for the real fishy part: My son transfered all the files from the old clamshell iBook to disk images and saved them on another external drive. I loaded these disk images into my "new" iBook (my son, by the way got a new 15" power book for college, starting at Ga Tech this year). I bring this up because I remembered that I have saved my more important files onto a thumb drive. I tried those last night and everything works fine - the links show up and its grand. However all my other files were saved using disk images and the vast majority of those cannot be opened by Excel even though the file icon and information about the file identifies them as an Excel file. Any ideas? Thanks for you earlier response. Richard [/QUOTE]