[muglo] Re: Excel

on 6/3/03 1:01 PM, Martin Albinger at max@xxxxxx wrote:

> Eric D. wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I just realised one caveat: there's a reasonable chance that AppleWorks will
>> not be able to read Excel 4 files!!! It's an old format and quite often old
>> formats are not widely supported (I've run into problems with Word 4/5,
>> WordPerfect (any version) and Excel 4 problems before).
>> 
>> Make sure that AW can read Excel 4 files before proceeding with that option.
> 
> 
> I not sure if it would be a problem. I think the .xls extension
> tends to translate. If not there is always MacLink Plus!

The thing I'm not sure about is the format. There's quite a difference
between Excel 4 for Mac and the current (5/95/98/2000/2001/X/XP) Excel
format(s). I would *strongly* recommend that Marilyn and her husband check
out AW's ability to open Excel 4 files before getting AW (unless they also
want AW's other stuff).

The easiest way to test this out would be to send one of these files to
someone who has AW 6.2.4.

Eric.


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