Many business apps are able to export data or reports to an Excel file. To
be "safe", they export an Excel version that is so old that virtually
anybody with Excel will be able to open it. You don't mention the
application, but it can probably export in various Excel formats along with
CSV and tab delimited files. Next chance you get, see if they can provide a
format from this century.

Does that help?
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Regards,

Ron
Microsoft MVP (Excel)
(XL2003, Win XP)




"RobWN" wrote in message
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Thanks Jim;

I would except it's Saturday night and I'm just starting to work on it (I
don't have much of a life!).
This is a business application.

I don't think the reference is to the Excel version but, rather, to an
application that writes xl worksheets.
Googling gives me a raft of download sites with references to "Business
Tools" (not a simple "what is")

I was hoping someone familiar with the app could answer my question, is it
the app or the user(?).

Again, thanks for your reply.

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Regards
Rob
"Jim Cone" wrote in message
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This says it is the second Excel version that MS released and it is 20
years old...
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/index.htm
Why not ask the sender about it?
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Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)



"RobWN"
wrote in message
I received a workbook that had some formatting problems, which I fixed
but, when I went to save
it I got a message that it was an Excel 2.1 worksheet.
I saved it using the overwrite option.
All is well but I was wondering what this is and if the formatting
problem (rows appeared
wrapped and unaligned with the column headings) could be related to the
2.1 format, or just a
mixed up user ("PIBCAK").

We expect to receive these workbooks (10+) on a monthly basis and if it's
the user then we can
have them fix it, if it's the app that prepares them then I'll have to
set up a macro to fix the
workbooks.
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Regards
Rob