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I got windows office 2013 and installed it on my windows 7 laptop. I have old office 2007 excel files that I can't open, and some that will only open when I go through the program and search for them. After loading some files I tried to save them in the new format. But even after that I can't open the file. I tried coping and pasting the info, again with no sucess. what can I do to fix this.
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Worked for me! ... Thank you very much! saved me from growing grey early!! haha :)
For some reason I had both Office 2010 and 2013 installed. iCloud wouldn't work so I uninstalled 2010; then (only) Excel wouldn't open files on double-click. Shortcuts to Excel files stopped working. Excel icons changed. The fix was the Quick Repair
This worked!!! But now I have to do it for every file that is in the older format. This started for me after I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7. Must be some new security thing. More protection than I wanted.
I have this same issue I have tried the fix you suggested to right click open with default pgm selecting MS XL to open all the time and I still have a blank work book everything else shows up but columns and rows are blank. The original document was created with XL2007
jack
this helped but is this a permanent solution or will I need to do this for every older file?