Hi Alpan,

as far as I have learned during the past years the Lotus 1-2-3 converter to
MS Excel is not quite good and has several issues.

Have you ever tried to leave the Lotus1-2-3 file as it is and load it in MS
Excel using the Microsoft Excel Converter for Lotus 1-2-3 files?

Did this help you?

Best wishes,
Eric

"Alpan" wrote:

I am using Office 2003 with Microsoft XP Home Edition. I open files
previously saved in Lotus 1-2-3 as *.XLS.

I am able to edit and add data to the file, but when I print the file it
has a dense, large, black overlay of the first characters in the file name,
obliterating much of the data. This shows in the print preview and in the
final printed copy.

How do I eliminate this overlay?