What Dave said, Doug. I believe the converter is only visible to the
account that installs it.

--
Jim
"Doug T" <Doug wrote in message
...
| Thanks, Jim --
|
| Your advice got us part way down the road. I was able to install the
| converter and to open wb3 files in Excel 2003 ... as long as I am logged
on
| as an administrator. However, the user with all of the legacy Quattro Pro
| files still gets an "invalid format" message when he tries logged on as an
| ordinary user. I've tried adding his account to the administrators group,
| and still no joy. I've also tried installing the converter on both a
terminal
| server and on his local (thick) client, with same results both times --
the
| installing admin account can open the files but other clients are denied.
It
| looks like a security issue, but the bottleneck must be with the converter
| files as I know he has permission to access his QP files. Unfortunately,
I
| don't know what qp7conv.exe installs. Any suggestions on how to resolve
this?
|
| Thanks,
| Doug
|
| "Jim Rech" wrote:
|
| MS did not release a converter that installs with Excel 2003 but the
2000
| works fine with 2003.
|
| To install the QP filter for Excel 2000 in Excel 2003 you have to make a
| registry entry that makes the filter installer believe you have Excel
2000
| installed.
|
| Run Regedit and create this key:
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\9.0\C ommon\InstallRoot
|
|
| (You'll probably have to create the 9.0 branch under Office and then
Common
| under it, and InstallRoot under Common)
|
|
| Then create a new string item named "Path" in the right panel with the
value
| being the path to your Office 2003 installation like:
| "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\"
|
|
| Change the path to point to where you have Office 2003 installed if
| different than the above.
| --
| Jim
|
| "Sandy M" wrote in message
| ...
| | Hi,
| |
| | Is there a Quattro Pro Converter (.wb1 files) for Office 2003?
| |
| | I looked on Office Update and saw 2 converters, but they are for
| | Office 97 and Office 2000.
| |
| | Thanks,
|
|
|