Excel 7 was excel 95 I believe so you must save xls files as excel 5/95
version on the newer versions, if you are using excel 97 it has the same
file format (there might be a few things later added that won't be available
but the files should open)

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"Silvermarsh" wrote in message
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I am using excel 97 v 7.0 and can't open files with extension .XLS. Not
sure
but they may have been created on newer version of excel