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Hi:
A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks |
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I'd ask the originator send the original file once more.
If that didn't work, I'd ask that the file be zipped and then sent. Mike wrote: Hi: A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi Dave:
That didn't help we have zipped, CD, etc. The problem still persist. Any ideas on what could be the problem. Also, I made a mistake in the name. The problem is between EXCEL 97 on a Window 2000 machine and EXCEL 2003 on a XP machine. Thanks "Dave Peterson" wrote: I'd ask the originator send the original file once more. If that didn't work, I'd ask that the file be zipped and then sent. Mike wrote: Hi: A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks -- Dave Peterson . |
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Your copy of xl2003 should be able to open a file created with xl97 with no
problems. My next guess is that the file is corrupted some how. But the only fix I know for that is to recreate the workbook. And that's could be a big job. Mike wrote: Hi Dave: That didn't help we have zipped, CD, etc. The problem still persist. Any ideas on what could be the problem. Also, I made a mistake in the name. The problem is between EXCEL 97 on a Window 2000 machine and EXCEL 2003 on a XP machine. Thanks "Dave Peterson" wrote: I'd ask the originator send the original file once more. If that didn't work, I'd ask that the file be zipped and then sent. Mike wrote: Hi: A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks -- Dave Peterson . -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi:
Yes, corruption seems to be the reason. My guess now is that the orginator's computer system has some kind of low level conversion taking place. Ie Linux to Intel, etc. Are you aware of any issues involving the setup of each operating system to communicate with each other, ie. bitwise swapping, etc.? "Dave Peterson" wrote: Your copy of xl2003 should be able to open a file created with xl97 with no problems. My next guess is that the file is corrupted some how. But the only fix I know for that is to recreate the workbook. And that's could be a big job. Mike wrote: Hi Dave: That didn't help we have zipped, CD, etc. The problem still persist. Any ideas on what could be the problem. Also, I made a mistake in the name. The problem is between EXCEL 97 on a Window 2000 machine and EXCEL 2003 on a XP machine. Thanks "Dave Peterson" wrote: I'd ask the originator send the original file once more. If that didn't work, I'd ask that the file be zipped and then sent. Mike wrote: Hi: A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks -- Dave Peterson . -- Dave Peterson . |
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I don't know anything about that kind of stuff.
But both of you have to be running some kind of version of Windows, right? Maybe you could ask him to create another workbook (just a test workbook) and send it to you. See if that works. Mike wrote: Hi: Yes, corruption seems to be the reason. My guess now is that the orginator's computer system has some kind of low level conversion taking place. Ie Linux to Intel, etc. Are you aware of any issues involving the setup of each operating system to communicate with each other, ie. bitwise swapping, etc.? "Dave Peterson" wrote: Your copy of xl2003 should be able to open a file created with xl97 with no problems. My next guess is that the file is corrupted some how. But the only fix I know for that is to recreate the workbook. And that's could be a big job. Mike wrote: Hi Dave: That didn't help we have zipped, CD, etc. The problem still persist. Any ideas on what could be the problem. Also, I made a mistake in the name. The problem is between EXCEL 97 on a Window 2000 machine and EXCEL 2003 on a XP machine. Thanks "Dave Peterson" wrote: I'd ask the originator send the original file once more. If that didn't work, I'd ask that the file be zipped and then sent. Mike wrote: Hi: A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks -- Dave Peterson . -- Dave Peterson . -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks, will give that a try, but I think they are writing it off as
something they can't do, at least with this workbook. "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't know anything about that kind of stuff. But both of you have to be running some kind of version of Windows, right? Maybe you could ask him to create another workbook (just a test workbook) and send it to you. See if that works. Mike wrote: Hi: Yes, corruption seems to be the reason. My guess now is that the orginator's computer system has some kind of low level conversion taking place. Ie Linux to Intel, etc. Are you aware of any issues involving the setup of each operating system to communicate with each other, ie. bitwise swapping, etc.? "Dave Peterson" wrote: Your copy of xl2003 should be able to open a file created with xl97 with no problems. My next guess is that the file is corrupted some how. But the only fix I know for that is to recreate the workbook. And that's could be a big job. Mike wrote: Hi Dave: That didn't help we have zipped, CD, etc. The problem still persist. Any ideas on what could be the problem. Also, I made a mistake in the name. The problem is between EXCEL 97 on a Window 2000 machine and EXCEL 2003 on a XP machine. Thanks "Dave Peterson" wrote: I'd ask the originator send the original file once more. If that didn't work, I'd ask that the file be zipped and then sent. Mike wrote: Hi: A friend is sending me a spreadsheet with formulas and macros created in Excel running on Windows 2000. I am running Windows XP with Excel 2003. Whenever I try to open his file, I am get two pop ups asking whether or not to disable macros. Regardles of how I answer, the spreadsheet eventually opens, but EXCEL says that the file was corrup and that it had to repair the file. The repaired file is non-functional because all the macros have been scripted. If I send the file back to the originator, he says it works fine. The file was sent to another person with Windows XP and EXCEL 2003 and he has the same problem. I tried the file at home with Windows XP and EXCEL and again the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks -- Dave Peterson . -- Dave Peterson . -- Dave Peterson . |
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