Thanks for that recap of limitations on this. It will help.

I'm going to play around at setting up som virtual machines with whatever
Beta copies I can find (I found Beta2 laying around here, not sure if I have
earlier releases on disk or not). I imagine I'll have to fool around with
the system date since most were time constrained - with Beta 2 timing out on
Feb 1.

It seems there may be a bit of a call for this type of help as time goes on,
since this is the second request of this type I've seen in about 3 days.

But it also points out one of the pitfalls of using Beta versions of
anythign for your mainstream work: not something you really want to do. But
in these cases I feel that these people were trying to help Microsoft by
being guinea pigs for the software and now they are left holding the bag with
files they cannot open any more because of the progression of the beta
program.

"Ron de Bruin" wrote:

Hi

Patrick posted this list

Files created in B1 only open in B1 & B1TR.
B1TR files only open B1TR & B2
B2 files only open in B2, B2TR & RTM
B2TR files only open in B2TR & RTM
RTM files only open in RTM


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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm


"JLatham" <HelpFrom @ Jlathamsite.com.(removethis) wrote in message ...
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...