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Studio 2011 won't take an Excel file, even when downgraded to Excel 97/2003
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
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Nov 24, 2020

The message I get is that the file is not in a version compatible with the Excel application, and will not be processed.

This occasionally happens to me with Office, and with Word or PowerPoint it seems to be a fix to just upgrade the doc or ppt version to docx/pptx (or even downgrade from docx/pptx to doc/ppt), but here it doesn't work. I thought it might be the name of the Excel, with a lot of symbols, but it doesn't work when I take all those out either.

Now I think ... See more
The message I get is that the file is not in a version compatible with the Excel application, and will not be processed.

This occasionally happens to me with Office, and with Word or PowerPoint it seems to be a fix to just upgrade the doc or ppt version to docx/pptx (or even downgrade from docx/pptx to doc/ppt), but here it doesn't work. I thought it might be the name of the Excel, with a lot of symbols, but it doesn't work when I take all those out either.

Now I think it might just be that the Excel has a lot of pasted graphs and diagrams in it. ?? ▲ Collapse
 
Mervyn Henderson (X)
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Solved Nov 24, 2020

This has now been solved through the good offices of Matthias Brombach, with moral support from expressisverbis, to both of whom I am extremely grateful.

expressisverbis
 
expressisverbis
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I'm happy to know it Nov 24, 2020

Thank you Mervyn, I did nothing.
I'm happy to know that Matthias could help you with this. I thought he went to crocodile fishing today!



[Edited at 2020-11-24 16:26 GMT]

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Matthias Brombach
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Nearly the same ... Nov 24, 2020

expressisverbis wrote:

I thought he went to crocodile fishing today!


Dealing with Studio is sometimes nearly the same, actually.

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