viewing works spreadsheet on excel 2000

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darryl

Aloha all,
Need some assistance, please.
Recently converted my operating system from ME to XP Pro.
The spreadsheets (on CD Rom's) I've created on ME were on
Microsoft Works 3.0. XP Pro has Excel (office 2000). I
cannot open my spreadsheets in Excel. The error indicates
that the "file is not in a recognizable format".
How can I open my Works files so I may convert them to the
Excel format.
Mahalo for your assistance.
 
Here is what Microsoft tells you to do -- not very useful since
you no longer have works on your machine to save it as a
works 2.0 or as an Excel file.
http://office.microsoft.com/assista...ID=HA010448771033&CTT=6&Origin=EC010553071033

It is unclear in what I've read whether OpenOffice will open
your MS Works files. I seen where it's been posted that it
will open most but not all MS Works files. Open Office is
free -- it is a very big download, more information on my
backup page.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm

If you know someone who still has MS Works the solution is
to save the file from MS Works as an Excel file.
 
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