Excel

My old laptop ran XP but has gone to the big laptop angel in the sky - ie
bust !!
I have a new laptop running Vista with Microsoft Office included ( I paid
for it !)
I have transferred some spread sheets from a CD back up disk but they will
not open .The back up is originally from my desktop which ran ME.They went
onto XP ok.
The message says Cannot open .xls file ???
Any step by step explanation to solve the problem would be appreciated
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Mick
Silver Surfer

You are saying that when you open Excel first and then go to file/open the
file can not open the .xls file, correct?

Or, are you trying to open the .xls file by double clicking on it in
Explorer or My Computer?


"SilverSurferMick" <SilverSurferMick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> My old laptop ran XP but has gone to the big laptop angel in the sky - ie
> bust !!
> I have a new laptop running Vista with Microsoft Office included ( I paid
> for it !)
> I have transferred some spread sheets from a CD back up disk but they will
> not open .The back up is originally from my desktop which ran ME.They went
> onto XP ok.
> The message says Cannot open .xls file ???
> Any step by step explanation to solve the problem would be appreciated
> --
> Mick
> Silver Surfer

Have you verified that Office/Excel is actually installed on the new laptop,
does Excel open if you try to run it? What version of Office on the old &
new laptop?

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"SilverSurferMick" <SilverSurferMick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> My old laptop ran XP but has gone to the big laptop angel in the sky - ie
> bust !!
> I have a new laptop running Vista with Microsoft Office included ( I paid
> for it !)
> I have transferred some spread sheets from a CD back up disk but they will
> not open .The back up is originally from my desktop which ran ME.They went
> onto XP ok.
> The message says Cannot open .xls file ???
> Any step by step explanation to solve the problem would be appreciated
> --
> Mick
> Silver Surfer

SilverSurferMick,
Right click the transferred *.XLS (Excel) files from from the CD> Properies>
Make sure that the Read-Only attribute is unchecked.

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"SilverSurferMick" <SilverSurferMick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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My old laptop ran XP but has gone to the big laptop angel in the sky - ie
bust !!
I have a new laptop running Vista with Microsoft Office included ( I paid
for it !)
I have transferred some spread sheets from a CD back up disk but they will
not open .The back up is originally from my desktop which ran ME.They went
onto XP ok.
The message says Cannot open .xls file ???
Any step by step explanation to solve the problem would be appreciated
--
Mick
Silver Surfer