Excel 98 will not open Excel 2.2, and maybe 3.0 files. So I keep one copy of Excel 5.0 ('95 version) floating around the available machines, just to upgrade old, old files.
Maybe it pays to have a text format output & input, so even if it isn't nice & pretty, it will at least remain accessable.
Cheers, Jay
Dennis Roberts wrote:
We have been having a discussion on the Minitab list about how current releases of Minitab will not open considerably older Minitab worksheet files ... and there seems to be NO practical way to solve this problem.
Does anyone know if any of the other major packages like SPSS or SYSTAT or SAS, etc. ... have similar problems? That is ... if you have very early versions of one of those and had SAVED files ... that current versions will NOT automatically open those older files?
My question is ... is this a source of ire with other software users too ... other than old time users of Minitab?
Dennis Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/m/dmr/droberts.htm
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