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Gord Dibben Gord Dibben is offline
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Default save as .bak when opening .xls

Just a note.............

Excel 2003 does not recognize *.bak files.

Backup files are *.xlk


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:43:01 -0700, avi
wrote:

Is it possible to let Excel save the .xls file to .bak when opening it?
Preferably with a macro.
(I am using Excel 2003).

Cheers,
Avi