Hi Dean,
Thanks for the suggestion. Too late for me but it may be a solution for
others...
Thanks again and best wishes, Boris

"Dean" wrote:

If you have the old directory for Corel, just copy that to your new PC. The
Quattro Pro executable will start without being installed and you could
resave in a more compatible format.

Dean

"Boris" wrote:

Hi Mitch - I understand your frustration! I tried using ConversionPlus to
convert old Quattro files but found this not to be very satisfactory as even
very simple formulae were converted to values and I was usually more
interested in seeing how my old woorkbooks were structured rather than
knowing the results... I have had to resort to a second (old) laptop which
has Correl Suite 9 on it - and am going also to install Quattro Pro fro Dos
on this as I have justy a few wq! files that I do not seem ever to have
converted! Lucky I still have the disks - and a floppy drive, for that matter!
Best wishes, Boris

"Mitch" wrote:

As someone who is trying to convert Quattro Pro spreadsheets to Excel 2007,
this discussion is very confusing. Both the Excel 2007 help file and the MS
kb (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...141031033.aspx)
unequivocally state that "Quattro Pro version 5.0/7.0 for Windows. You can
open Quattro Pro files in Excel by using a converter. You cannot save an
Excel file to Quattro Pro format."

Either the info in this strand is wrong or MS is putting out false info.

Mitch

"Boris" wrote:

Dear Harlan,
Thanks for the tip. Somewhere, I think I have an old laptop with Office XP
and the QPro converters... but perhaps I will just pretend I lost the old
QPro files in a fire or something!
Thanks again and best wishes, Boris.

"Harlan Grove" wrote:

"Boris" wrote...
. . . Perhaps Microsoft will,
at some stage, offer conversions for the various competitor spreadsheet
formats - at least to be ble to open them in Office 2007... In the mean
time, I guess I will have to reinstall office 2003 and convert my old wb2
files at least...
....

Microsoft is unlikely to provide converters ever again unless Excel loses
significant market share, and even if it were to Quattro Pro, QP's current
file format is .QPW rather than .WB1/.WB2/.WB3.

You'll also need to reinstall the .WB? converter along with Excel 2003.