XLS Files

Party_Animal

Can anyone please advise? I use wincalendars as holiday planners and I've found them very useful in the past. Now when I try to open them I can't open Xls files. I've tried various programmes that claim to fix the registry etc but no joy. Can anyone recommend anything I can download?
Thanks

TadleyBaggie

XLS files are Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, do you have this installed?

Party_Animal

Yes and It's worked ok in the past. I can use Excel to create a document but I can't open these Excel files.
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victor2

Can you open any other xls file by double clicking on it?

bod1467

Do you get any specific error when you try to open them?

What version of Excel do you have?

What if you open Excel first then open the file from within Excel?

Are these actually XLSX files rather than XLS files?

Party_Animal

Sorry, they are xlsx and it says Windows can't open these files. I used them last year. My version of Excel is 2000. I'm running XP
Thanks

victor2

They have been opened and saved with a later version of Excel at some point. Can you open them from the same computer as previously edited them and then use the option to save as xls files instead of xlsx?


Edit:
Failing that there is a compatibility pack you can install. Details at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074/en-gb

Browntoa

plug in

http://pcsupport.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=pcsupport&cdn=compute&tm=18&gps=557_9_1440_754&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_p504.6.342.ip_&tt=65&bt=9&bts=9&zu=http%3A//www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx%3Fid%3D3

spenderdave

LibreOffice and OpenOffice will both open all the new format files, including xlsx - for free.

Party_Animal

Many thanks. I'll give them a try tomorrow.

Party_Animal

Many thanks. Downloaded Open Office and it's working fine. Also tried Excel Viewer. It opened the file but I couldn't see any means of saving it. No save or file button.
Thanks again