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Marc Fuller

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Jun 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/9/98
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Hi All,

Anyone know where I can get a Excel converter to convert Excel 98 workbooks
to Excel 95 ?

Any help appreciated

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Marc Fuller (marc....@cwlease.co.uk)
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Meihua Liang

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Jun 9, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/9/98
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Open the Excel 98 workbooks in Excel 98 and use File->Save As, choose the save
as type to be the one for Excel 95. Give it a new file name and you got your
Excel 95 workbook.

Tom Packert

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Jun 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/10/98
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"Marc Fuller" <Marc....@cwlease.co.uk> wrote:

In article <357D92EB...@intermo.com>,


Meihua Liang <mli...@intermo.com> wrote:
>
> Open the Excel 98 workbooks in Excel 98 and use File->Save As, choose the >save as type to be the one for Excel 95. Give it a new file name and you got > your Excel 95 workbook.
>

[snip]

Ok, forget the perpetual SAVE AS, it is labor intensive and
frustrating. Is there a way to:

1 - Set the default SAVE and SAVE AS in Excel 97 or 98 to save AS
Excel 5.0. If this is possible, then it would save us a lot of
headaches. While we are trying to roll out new M$ products, it would
simplify the exchange of documents between users. The users should
not have to know whether the document is saved in Excel 5, 95, 7 or
97, 8, 98, 9, 99, 0 or 1900 format.

2 - Load and ADD-ON to Excel 5 to allow them to read Excel 7 documents
in and lose any Excel 7 features. Basicly instead of a SAVE AS in
Excel 97, how about a READ AS for Excel 5.0 until we get around to
upgrading everyone.

3 - Is there a way to have a user written MACRO replace the FILE-SAVE
and FILE-SAVE AS functions in the STANDARD menu bar?

Regards,

Tom

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Tom Packert

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Jun 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/10/98
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tpac...@mindspring.com (Tom Packert) wrote:


>1 - Set the default SAVE and SAVE AS in Excel 97 or 98 to save AS
>Excel 5.0. If this is possible, then it would save us a lot of
>headaches. While we are trying to roll out new M$ products, it would
>simplify the exchange of documents between users. The users should
>not have to know whether the document is saved in Excel 5, 95, 7 or
>97, 8, 98, 9, 99, 0 or 1900 format.

Answer: Got to TOOLS-OPTIONS-TRANSITION in Excel and select the older
Document format as the default, Unfortunately, saving documents with
the older format set forces clippy to pop up everytime you save. In
word, go to TOOLS-OPTIONS-SAVE and change SAVE AS to the odler format.

denise...@wmintl.com

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Jun 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/11/98
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In article <eEtEEz3...@uppssnewspub05.moswest.msn.net>,

"Marc Fuller" <Marc....@cwlease.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone know where I can get a Excel converter to convert Excel 98 workbooks
> to Excel 95 ?
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> --
> Regards
> Marc Fuller (marc....@cwlease.co.uk)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> Information Technology Dept. - CW Lease UK Ltd
>
>


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David Kashing Lui

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Jun 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/19/98
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it is a simple task for the users of 97 to use "save as" option to
"downgrade" the file format from 97 to 95. but for us the ones in poverty,
we couldnt afford to upgrade to 97 (money reasons), so we have no options
but to ask people to convert them for us why doesnt mircosoft just write and
launch a small application which without opening the document (words or
excel or access) converts it to 95 or earlier formats?

Bob Buckland

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Jun 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/19/98
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Hi David,

Who among us can really fathom the Microsoft way of reasoning :)
They do read the product improvement suggestions they receive
via email to msw...@microsoft.com. They don't participate in
the newsgroups. The more requests they get the better.

Some of the 3rd party converter folks appear to have the
capability to do Excel97 to Excel95 but I've not tested these.
http://www.keyview.com http://www.dataviz.com

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