Hello Tom,
Monday, December 2, 2002, 21:08, you wrote:
TT> The ability to open Lotus spreadsheets in Excel is built-in to Excel. Use
TT> the drop down 'File of Type' listbox to select Lotus 123 files. If this is
TT> not in the list, then you did not install the converter when you installed
TT> MS Office. Using the Office cd, you can install the add-on Lotus file
TT> converter.
TT> If you have macros and programming in your 123 spreadsheet, you will lose
TT> them. Charts also don't convert correctly in most cases. Cells and
TT> formulas do.
TT> Excel does not permit you to save in Lotus 123 format.
TT> Tom Turak
TT> Would like to convert my Lotus spread sheet to Excel
TT> does anyone have known how to go about this or a
TT> program that I can use to convert the two.
TT> Star Damian
Well, I have the option in Excel to save in the following Lotus 1-2-3
formats: *.wks, *.wk1, *.wk3 and *.wk4.
My preference would be to save from Lotus in the *.xls format, but I
have had very, very few problems both ways. The same experience with
Quattro Pro.
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Best regards,
Mogens Holst
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