We have migrated to Office 365. One problem is that the online office will not open .xls files. Many of our vendors still use it. I need a way to convert them to .xlsx so O365 can open them. We don't want to use an online service because we are worried about data mining sensitive information.
I've spent all day searching.
Hi there
Can't understand why you need a converter --Office 2016 handles previous EXCEL formats perfectly -- I'd imagine OFFICE 365 does the same as it's the same program (subscription vs perpetual licensed version) -- and no prob at all reading EXCEL 2007 / 2010 or even earlier formats.
example here with some complex graphs - created under Office 2007 and read with Office 2016.
Cheers
jimbo
Yes, it's very strange that the formats that Microsoft created for it's office products can't be opened or converted by it's own products when I can load those same documents into Google Drive, edit them and convert them. It makes no sense.
Anyway; I think we'll just put LibreOffice on the machines that don't have a fat client.
Hi there
Forget Libre Office
WPS office is much more compatible and will handle XLSX
The only thing the FREE version won't do is handle VB macros (other stuff like graphs and formulae work just fine - usually with no change required from the original EXCEL.
WPS Office 2016 Personal Edition - For Home and Student
(Works on Linux too !!!).
Cheers
jimbo
Why you do not copy and paste the file and convert it in another machine.
Just in save option.
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