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I have a series of files generated by a program called Info WorkPlace with a
..XLK extension. I can open these files in Excel 2000, but if I try to load it
in Excel 2003, I get an error "This file was created by a newer version of
Excel. do you want to download a converter so you can work with this file?"
I'm already running the latest version. How can I open these files in Excel
2003?

If I open the file in WordPad, here are the first few lines of the file. As
you can see, this is not the standard Excel binary format.

Thanks,

Dave

ID;PWOP;N;E
P;PGeneral
P;P0
P;P###,###,###,###,##0.000000000
P;P###,###,###,###,###.#########
P;P##############0.000000000
P;P###############.#########
P;PGeneral
P;PGeneral
P;PGeneral
P;Pgeneral
P;Pgeneral
P;P###,###,###,###,##0.000000000\ ;;\###,###,###,###,##0.000000000\C\R
P;P###,###,###,###,###.#########\ ;;\###,###,###,###,###.#########\C\R
P;P##############0.000000000\ ;;\##############0.000000000\C\R
P;P###############.#########\ ;;\###############.#########\C\R
P;P###,###,###,###,##0.000000000\ ;;\###,###,###,###,##0.000000000\-
P;P###,###,###,###,###.#########\ ;;\###,###,###,###,###.#########\-
P;P##############0.000000000\ ;;\##############0.000000000\-
P;P###############.#########\ ;;\###############.#########\-
P;P##############0
P;P#########\/##\/##
P;P###############
F;P0;DG0G8;M255
B;Y0000019 ;X0000011
F;W00001 00001 00010
F;P0;FG0L;00001
F;W00002 00002 00013
F;P0;FG0L;00002
 
I think I figured out the problem. This is actually a SILK file format. The
extension is supposed to be .SLK, not .XLK. Once I changed the file
extension, Excel 2003 was able to open it just fine.
 
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