Sadly I was not able to assist with this. Hopefully someone else will come
up with another possible solution.

Burger23 sent me the two files and I attempted to open them with the current
retail version of Excel 2007.

One of the two files appears to actually be corrupted, and Excel 2007 says
it is corrupted and there is no hope of opening it.

The second file gives me the same "go back and use Beta 2 to open and save
the file" message that Burger23 is getting. Since I never had Beta 2, no
help from me there either.

I've recommended possibly setting up a VirtualPC on his machine with the
Beta 2 Excel software on it long enough to open the file, save it again,
perhaps even saving to the older .xls (excel 97-2003) format and then reading
it with his current version of Excel 2007.

If anyone else has any other recommendations or a better solution, I'm sure
he would love to hear about it.

"Burger23" wrote:

I am using Office 2007 Beta 2 with the Technical redresh installed (
version 12.0.4407.1005). I am trying to open 2 files created in 05/06 and
saved in the .xlsx format. I am getting the following error message:

"The wordbook was created in an earlier beta version of Excel 2007, and it
cannot be opned in the current version of Excel. To open the workbook, you
must first open and save it in Excel 2007 Beta 2, and then you can opn it in
the current version of Excel."

Other xlsx workbooks created after this time open fine.

Ideas...