It tells me that the .xls file that I am trying to open is not formatted
properly.

What I did was open a file from my flash drive, which I have been using for
months. This file was working fine and I saved the info back to my flash
drive as a 97-2003 file so I could still use it with other computers. When I
went in a few minutes later to make another change it wouldn't open properly.
If I tell it to ignore I get a page with a lot of "y"s. Today I tried to open
the file here at work with excel 2003 and it is doing the same thing. I fear
that I have lost my info and it is very important.

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi

What error do you get?
I have saved and opened lots of files from XL2007 in 97-2003 format
without any problem - so far.

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Regards

Roger Govier


"Dwyndl" wrote in message
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I saved an excel file as 97-2003 but now it won't open with excel 2007.
How
do I get it to open?