Opening .pps and excel in win XP

limpdd

Can not open any excel or power point files that were made using win 2000 on my win XP, any help???

SouperComputer

need more info

what office version are you running? have you got any security set for the files

limpdd

Sorry should have said I wanted to open them in microsoft works
There is no security on them, it just says that the file type is not recognised

Capt'n Midnight

Works can usually read older versions of some office documents - but never the latest version - can't have the punters not being forced to spend the full RRP for office can we ?

Options

Lowest common demoninator - Knudge
in Works - File / Open and make a note of what types of fies it can open - then check out office - File - Save and see if any of them match - try several types - some contain more formatting than others.

Read Only - can't save as
Download the Excel / Powerpoint viewers from the M$ site.
Office 2000 Viewers http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
http://office.microsoft.com/Downloads/default.aspx

Or just get open office for FREE
100MB download or cover CD and no license. Because of copyright reasons some of the apps and menus have different names to M$ - but then again M$ change names from time to time too - in tools / option - make sure you save docs as Word 97 and Excel 97 or whichever Works format works above..
http://www.openoffice.org/
Does not contain an access compatible database - but then again not even microsoft make an dB that can read and save in other revisions of access....

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PS. I used to think "Microsoft Works" was in contravention of the Trading Standards act. But compared to the so called "integrated" M$ office suite it's not. Eg: Try moving cells between excel and word or look at access and VB incompatabilites between versions etc....
Rant over.

limpdd

Cheers Capt'n!:)
Will try this later, should be fun:D