[OT] concerting xlsx to to xls files

In article ,
XS11E wrote:
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Why? xlsx is the current, open standard for excel. Xls is an old,
sometimes incompatible, format. There's a reason to keep existing
old xls files, but not to revert new files.

Well, that's an opinion.

Everyone is entitled to one.

Yes but one has to ASS-U-ME that the OP had need of doing what was
asked and his need was not helped by that post so while everyone is
entitled to an opinion some are better not expressed.

Yep. We are in agreement.

That was pretty much my point - that I tend to assume that OP's have a
reason for their requests. Yet, people on these forums always end up
questioning people's intentions.

Years back I worked at a place that used a very old version of MS
Office and I could access their files to work from my home PC. They
could not read .docx or .xlsx files. Since their entire computing
network and all software was dependent upon donations, upgrading was
not an option.

Indeed. Quite so.

It is not at all hard to imagine dozens of perfectly valid reasons why OP
wants to do what he says he wants to do.

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Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article ,
XS11E wrote:
...
Why? xlsx is the current, open standard for excel. Xls is an old,
sometimes incompatible, format. There's a reason to keep existing
old xls files, but not to revert new files.

Well, that's an opinion.

Everyone is entitled to one.

Yes but one has to ASS-U-ME that the OP had need of doing what was
asked and his need was not helped by that post so while everyone is
entitled to an opinion some are better not expressed.

Yep. We are in agreement.

That was pretty much my point - that I tend to assume that OP's have a
reason for their requests. Yet, people on these forums always end up
questioning people's intentions.

Often people ask a question without realising there are broader solutions
to their problem. Finding out why is an appropriate question.

Years back I worked at a place that used a very old version of MS
Office and I could access their files to work from my home PC. They
could not read .docx or .xlsx files. Since their entire computing
network and all software was dependent upon donations, upgrading was
not an option.

Indeed. Quite so.

LibreOffice is free and reads all office formats. It is better than
Microsoft at reading old .doc and .xls files.

It is not at all hard to imagine dozens of perfectly valid reasons why OP
wants to do what he says he wants to do.

There could be, or the OP could be unaware of other options.

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:36:27 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:

On 6/10/2019 7:19 AM, pinnerite wrote:
Eventually I got two of them to close, when suddenly the xlsx file
opened up as an xls file. However after I closed it and tried again, I
got a 'this is not a recognised file format'.
did you save it as an xls file?

No, I didn't need to as I had already created an xls in OpenOffice Calc
under Linux but that is tedious if I need it in Windows.




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On 6/9/2019 3:47 PM, pinnerite wrote:
I have two copies of Microsoft Office 2000 and 2003.

I used to be able to convert xlsx file to xls with a converter but that
was a while ago under XP.

I have tried to find some way of doing it recently but nothing seemed to
work.

I wondered if there was anyone who remembers some way of doing it that
may still work.


You can use 2003 to save the xlsx file as xls. No converter required.

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Chris wrote:

LibreOffice is free and reads all office formats.

No, it does not. I like OpenOffice and LibereOffice and have used both
but their claims of compatibility are only partially true, passing XLS
or DOC files back and forth between PCs running MS Office and
Open/Libre will result in totally corrupted unusable files unless the
files are very basic with extremely limited formatting.

BTDT.

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On 6/11/19 6:03 PM, XS11E wrote:
Chris wrote:

LibreOffice is free and reads all office formats.

No, it does not. I like OpenOffice and LibereOffice and have used both
but their claims of compatibility are only partially true, passing XLS
or DOC files back and forth between PCs running MS Office and
Open/Libre will result in totally corrupted unusable files unless the
files are very basic with extremely limited formatting.

BTDT.

+1


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Ken Springer wrote:
On 6/11/19 6:03 PM, XS11E wrote:
Chris wrote:

LibreOffice is free and reads all office formats.

No, it does not. I like OpenOffice and LibereOffice and have used both
but their claims of compatibility are only partially true, passing XLS
or DOC files back and forth between PCs running MS Office and
Open/Libre will result in totally corrupted unusable files unless the
files are very basic with extremely limited formatting.

BTDT.

+1

+1. I only use them for basic documents.
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