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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Mogens Holst
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