Norman, Thanks for your reply. The beta download looks spooky. I'll have
to advise the Lotus reopen/Excel save route.

"Norman Jones" wrote:

Hi Phil,

See the following recent thread:

http://tinyurl.com/9y3qv

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Regards,
Norman



"Phil Hageman" wrote in message
...
A user has Lotus files needing to be opened/converted to Excel (hard drive
crash, with Lotus as the spreadsheet application). When attempting an
"open
with", Excel returns a warning: Cannot open Lotus 123 file. Have tried
changing the .123 extention to .wk1/2/3/4 and get the same warning.

In Excel 2000 Professional, the file icon has the green Excel "X" located
fully within the borders of the sheet of paper background. I notice with
regular Excel the "X" is partially outside the sheet of paper background.

Can someone advise how to open these files?

Thanks, Phil