The files are not corrupted, the worksheets open in Excel 2000 with
characters no longer allowed in Excel 2003. By his reply, Dave may have made
an earlier comment that did not get attached to this thread.
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James L. Smith


"Lumen S" wrote:

Help please. A MatLab 7.2 program must read 1000 files created in Excel
2000. The current system has Excel 2003 and has different rules for sheet
names. It will not allow MatLab 7.2 to read what it considers flawed files.
The Excel files are in a directory with other files. How can I change the
names of two sheets on each of 1000 files without it being a one-at-the-time
process?
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James L. Smith