Do you still have the original machine with Excel 97? If so, do they open OK
there? And, what hardware did you use to copy from one machine to the other?


"keithp" wrote in message
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2. the documanet is corrupt and cannot be openedWe have copied the files
onto
the new pc which we are then trying to open with Office 2000 - I also have
copies of them them on my machine which runs Office 2003, have tried that
as
well, with no success.
The messages I get either say that :
1. The file format is not valid or
2. the document is corrupt and cannot be opened ...a few of the sheets
will
open but the data appears unformatted..like this

body
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: white;
}

/* Be nice to netscape 4 */
body, p, div, span, ul, li, dl, dd, dt, ol, td, h1, h2, h3, h4
{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

All running down the first column....

Any idea's ?

"Doug Kanter" wrote:


"keithp" wrote in message
...
I am trying to help someone upgrade their pc...they have been using
Windows
2000 with Office'97 and have a number of Excel worksheets containing
data
they need to move as well. the new machine has Windows XP (Pro) and
Office
2000..

When we try and move the spreadsheets the format is all wrong and we
get
various error messages...Is there an easy was to do this that we don't
know. ?

Help would be really appreciated.

When you try and move them the format's all wrong? Do you actually mean
you
encounter problems when copying the files to the new machine? Or, when
opening them in Excel 2000? And, please provide the actual text of the
error
messages.