The look up function appears in each cell in a particular column, yes.
The weird thing is that I can open the same spreadsheet that we used in 2008
and all the formatting is OK - but, there were no lookups on that sheet.

If there is no patch for it, what would be the best way to recreate the
spreadsheet with the look ups in it so that it can be looked at by users of
2003 and 2007? If i recreate it in 2007 will the functionality be seen in
2003?

"Don Guillett" wrote:

By any chance are you looking up the ENTIRE column?

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"daftchickhanley" wrote in
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I recently had Office 2007 on my work PC. Others are still on 2003. All
spreadsheets created so far are on 2003 and I recently changed one of them
to
include look up functions from lists and, it has dates and formulas to
calculate network days etc.

Opening this in 2007 causes 2007 to crash continually and recover the
file -
all formatting is lost.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Also - every time I open excel in 2007 it says it's in compatible mode -
what does that mean exactly?

Thanks!