Re: Opening Excel 2002 file in Excel 2000 problems

Each version of excel seems to be sensitive to different levels of corruption.
Usually, the newer versions can handle it better than the earlier version--but
not always.

You may want to try rebuilding the workbook to see if that helps.

If things get really bad...

Lots of people have praised OpenOffice.org for saving their data and code.

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

There are commercial recovery services. I've never used it, but you might want
to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com

Mark Christensen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I created a worksheet in Excel 2002 SP3. Nothing fancy, just columns and
> rows with text and numbers. When I open it in Excel 2000, the following
> warning box appears:
>
> File error. Some number formats may have been lost.
>
> It doesn't prevent me from opening the file in 2000, but I still don't want
> users to get that message when they open it. I tried saving it as an Excel
> 2000 file but still got the same error when opening it in Excel 2000. I get
> no warnings when I open it in Excel 2002.
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks.
>
> Mark

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Dave Peterson
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