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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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I am not understanding... These are files I created in an earlier version of XL not files I downloaded.
I would be more than happy to try your fix if I knew how to change to change my setting from
protected view
j
Hello, I found out that my computer was opening the files in protected view so i changed my setting so i could open any files i downloaded, and this immediately fixed the problem. Idk if you have tried this, but if you haven't give it a try!
I'm not quite sure what to do as my computer is in Windows 10 and I don't know if that applies to my computer too. I tried to repair the file using the new feature and even did what you showed above, yet no options appeared.
This did not help at all... so what is next ... I had an older copy of MS Office suit on my computer I had installed Office 2013 (HUP) over it.. Then recently when I had a Solid State HD installed I have my computer guru take out programs I was not using... like the older version of MSO. I did not think that would affect it but ??
j
this helped but is this a permanent solution or will I need to do this for every older file?