The "stupid" action was upgrading to 2007 too early for the rest of the
organization. No offense. Perhaps I should say unadvised instead of stupid.
In general, software should not be upgraded until every aspect has been
contemplated. Existing files and code must be tested, and the compatibility
route must be examined, because you will always need to exchange old-format
files with customers, vendors, and colleagues.

The only information you will lose by back-saving a workbook is anything
beyond 65536 rows or 256 columns. You may lose the fancy formats, who cares?

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Suzanne" wrote in message
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I need wording help. We have upgraded to Office 2007 and I have a LOT of
excel sheets that are fairly complicated. I have a board that many say
they
cannot (?) download the compatability software and therefore want me to
save
EVERYTHING back in 2003 and send it to them in that. This is just crazy.
I
have tried to explain that I could lose information, etc. and they still
want me to do it. Can someone give me some wording to convince these
people
that this is just a stupid thing to ask of me. Thanks