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Quattro Pro and Excel 2007
Hi,
I am trying to open some Quattro Pro (wb3) files in Excel 2007... On the Microsoft Office Online site, File formats that are supported in Excel article, it says for both wb1 and wb3 files: "You can open Quattro Pro files in Excel by using a converter. You cannot save an Excel file to Quattro Pro format." The question is what converter? I installed Office 2007 with all the converters that came with it but when I try to open the wb3 file, Excel simply says "incorrect format" and will not open the file. Can someone let me know where I might get the Office 2007 converter referred to in the Office Online article? (I might also need to open some wq1 files but I guess I will meet that challenge when I come to it)... Many thanks, as always, Boris. |
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The article you saw referred to older versions of Excel. Excel 2007 cannot
open any QP file or any 1-2-3 file for that matter. -- Jim "Boris" wrote in message ... Hi, I am trying to open some Quattro Pro (wb3) files in Excel 2007... On the Microsoft Office Online site, File formats that are supported in Excel article, it says for both wb1 and wb3 files: "You can open Quattro Pro files in Excel by using a converter. You cannot save an Excel file to Quattro Pro format." The question is what converter? I installed Office 2007 with all the converters that came with it but when I try to open the wb3 file, Excel simply says "incorrect format" and will not open the file. Can someone let me know where I might get the Office 2007 converter referred to in the Office Online article? (I might also need to open some wq1 files but I guess I will meet that challenge when I come to it)... Many thanks, as always, Boris. |
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Thanks Jim. Not the answer I was hoping for but sort of as expected...
Best wishes, Boris. "Jim Rech" wrote: The article you saw referred to older versions of Excel. Excel 2007 cannot open any QP file or any 1-2-3 file for that matter. -- Jim "Boris" wrote in message ... Hi, I am trying to open some Quattro Pro (wb3) files in Excel 2007... On the Microsoft Office Online site, File formats that are supported in Excel article, it says for both wb1 and wb3 files: "You can open Quattro Pro files in Excel by using a converter. You cannot save an Excel file to Quattro Pro format." The question is what converter? I installed Office 2007 with all the converters that came with it but when I try to open the wb3 file, Excel simply says "incorrect format" and will not open the file. Can someone let me know where I might get the Office 2007 converter referred to in the Office Online article? (I might also need to open some wq1 files but I guess I will meet that challenge when I come to it)... Many thanks, as always, Boris. |
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I should have added though that you can download the free Open Office
spreadsheet program which can open QP files (I'm pretty sure<g) and save as XLS. http://www.openoffice.org/ -- Jim "Boris" wrote in message ... Thanks Jim. Not the answer I was hoping for but sort of as expected... Best wishes, Boris. "Jim Rech" wrote: The article you saw referred to older versions of Excel. Excel 2007 cannot open any QP file or any 1-2-3 file for that matter. -- Jim "Boris" wrote in message ... Hi, I am trying to open some Quattro Pro (wb3) files in Excel 2007... On the Microsoft Office Online site, File formats that are supported in Excel article, it says for both wb1 and wb3 files: "You can open Quattro Pro files in Excel by using a converter. You cannot save an Excel file to Quattro Pro format." The question is what converter? I installed Office 2007 with all the converters that came with it but when I try to open the wb3 file, Excel simply says "incorrect format" and will not open the file. Can someone let me know where I might get the Office 2007 converter referred to in the Office Online article? (I might also need to open some wq1 files but I guess I will meet that challenge when I come to it)... Many thanks, as always, Boris. |
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"Jim Rech" wrote...
I should have added though that you can download the free Open Office spreadsheet program which can open QP files (I'm pretty sure<g) and save as XLS. .... Unfortunately (but complimentarily at least to Excel 2003 and prior), OpenOffice only shows .WB2 (QP6) files in its Open dialog. |
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Dear Harlan, dear Jim,
Thanks to both of you for your helpful suggestions. 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... Thanks again and best wishes, Boris. "Harlan Grove" wrote: "Jim Rech" wrote... I should have added though that you can download the free Open Office spreadsheet program which can open QP files (I'm pretty sure<g) and save as XLS. .... Unfortunately (but complimentarily at least to Excel 2003 and prior), OpenOffice only shows .WB2 (QP6) files in its Open dialog. |
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Perhaps Microsoft will, at some stage, offer conversions for the various
competitor spreadsheet formats No way, Boris. Sorry but MS has been steadily _removing_ support for QP and 1-2-3 for many versions. I think it's part of their victory dance. -- Jim "Boris" wrote in message ... | Dear Harlan, dear Jim, | Thanks to both of you for your helpful suggestions. 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... | Thanks again and best wishes, Boris. | | "Harlan Grove" wrote: | | "Jim Rech" wrote... | I should have added though that you can download the free Open | Office spreadsheet program which can open QP files (I'm pretty | sure<g) and save as XLS. | .... | | Unfortunately (but complimentarily at least to Excel 2003 and prior), | OpenOffice only shows .WB2 (QP6) files in its Open dialog. | | |
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"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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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It does say "... by using a converter ...". At the bottom of the
article it also states that file converters may be available from other developers. MS do not claim that they supply a converter for Quattro Pro. (I am not in the habit of defending them - this is a first for me !! ) Pete On Nov 28, 7:20 pm, 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.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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