Hi Flopmax,

You would have to save the workbook in Excel 5 format:

File | Save As | In the 'Save as type' dropdown, select:

Microsoft Excel 5.0 / 95 workbook 9*.xls)

Note that features dependent on later versions will be lost!

Make sure that you save the workbook with a new name so that the current
(newer) version is not overwritten!

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Regards,
Norman



"flopmax" wrote in message
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I have excel 5.0C and need to work with files from a newer version of
excel.
Everytime I try to open files from a newer version of excel, I get the
error
message that it is not in xls format. Is there a way around this?