Excel 95 (version 7) can be opened in later versions.
Your friend needs to modernize.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"marty" wrote in message
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i have a friend who is running windows 3.1 and excel 5, when she tries to
open in a newer version, not sure which version but when she tries to open
spread sheet she gets an error. the old excel was modified for her
business.
are these older versions not compatible? are the formulas that different
from
version to version?

thanks