Jon and Tyro

Obviously I have only limited knowledge of this stuff but I don't "save as"
to convert. I click on the office button in the upper left hand corner and
there is a "convert" option [distinct from the "save" or "save as" options].
And yes, when I'm using a .doc file in Word 2007 and click on convert and
then close the file, it shows up in the directory with a .docx extension.
There is only one file with that name. In Excel, I do the same thing and the
result is two files with the same name, one with an .xls extension and the
other with an .xlsx extension.

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Geoff


"Jon Peltier" wrote:

Since it's a Save As operation, I would not have expected the old file to be
deleted.

- Jon
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"Tschurin" wrote in message
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I have read that when I convert an .xls workbook to .xlsx, Excel will
automatically delete the older version. It is not working that way for me;
the old .xls file is still there in the file directory, along with the
newer
.xlsx version, even after I "refresh" Windows explorer. Any suggestions as
to
why the old .xls files are not being deleted automatically
post-conversion; I
have thousands of older files and would hate to have to delete each one of
them manually when I convert a workbook to Excel 2007. I believe the older
files were mostly created in Excel 2000. Oddly enough the automatic
deletion
is working fine with my Word 2007 after I convert a .doc file to .docx.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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Geoff