[OT] concerting xlsx to to xls files

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.


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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.

Try this:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=27836

On 09/06/2019 20:47, 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.


Search for the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.
If you have not already done it you may find that installing Microsoft
Office 2000 and 2003 under Win 10 needs some tweaking.

On 09.06.19 21:47, 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.


(Re)install or go back to XP.

On 10-Jun-2019 9:04 AM, Sjouke Burry wrote:
On 09.06.19 21:47, 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.


(Re)install or go back to XP.

I'm running Excel 2000 on Windows 10.Â* The default application for .xlsx
files is Microsoft Open XML Converter (freeware). It opens the .xlsx
files as .xls

Not too sure how relevant this is for your problem....

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 23:04:14 +0200, Sjouke Burry
wrote:

On 09.06.19 21:47, pinnerite wrote:

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.

Google provides a number of options with the following search
argument:

"how to convert xlsx files to xls" (quotes not required)

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:19:54 -0500, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

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.

Try this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=27836

I installed it a year ago and gave up. I tried again today.

After installation I rebooted XP and clicked on an xlsx file. A message
flashed and disappeared. I tried another couple of times.

Eventually three copies of Excel came up, all giving this message:
‘Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE
action' but hanging.

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'.

This is what had been happening throughout this saga.

I have yet to try it under Win-10. I'll come back after I do.




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pinnerite wrote:

I have yet to try it under Win-10. I'll come back after I do.

Why not install LibreOffice, open the xlsx file, then save as xls ?

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:19:25 +0000, pinnerite wrote:

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:19:54 -0500, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

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.

Try this:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=27836

I installed it a year ago and gave up. I tried again today.

After installation I rebooted XP and clicked on an xlsx file. A message
flashed and disappeared. I tried another couple of times.

Eventually three copies of Excel came up, all giving this message:
‘Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE
action' but hanging.

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'.

This is what had been happening throughout this saga.

I have yet to try it under Win-10. I'll come back after I do.

To my surprise, despite not working yesterday, after installing the same
converter, an xlsx file came up in Excel 2003 just now.

My thanks to everyone that contributed.

Regards, Alan

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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?

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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.

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.

In article , Chris wrote:
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.

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.

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Chris wrote:
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.

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.

Except if you want to run somebody elses xlsx file
on your xls version of Office. For basic calcs,
any old version of Excel will do, so down-converting
for that "copy of Office you already own" is just fine.

One benefit of the newer format, is it's a ZIP file,
and you can find the individual resources inside the
folders and the like. (You can grab the pictures out
of someones .docx for example.) But the "kernel" of
some of them, is mercilessly encrypted with the
"velvetsweatshop" password, so will resist examination
with your hex editor. Even if you haven't set up a
password on a file, the program obfuscates the core of the
content by using the default password and X passes
of some crap. (If you set a password, your password
is used, if you don't set a password, then "velvetsweatshop"
is used. That's why you can't spot all the text
strings in there that you might have been expecting.)

The employees at Microsoft dreamt up that password, back
in a time when Office documentation was only internal.
When Microsoft was forced to make the documentation
externally available, they were "embarrassed" by the
choice of default password the staff had cooked up.
To "CYA", the staff print the default password in
hex like this...

"The default password is:

0x23 0x34 0x45 0x46... "

And then you have to get out your ASCII table and
convert that into the string :-)

Paul

(Kenny McCormack) wrote:

In article , Chris
wrote:
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.

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.

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.

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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.


2003 under "Save As" has an entry to save as XLS so can then use 2000 to
combine. 2003 can read XLS and XLSX

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