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    Ryan Jones
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    Re: Error message when using Excel to open text file

    One way that might work would be to have the new excel save and work
    compatible with excel 2000

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    > Periodically, I need to extract data from one of my email inboxes. To
    > do so, I open Excel. From that, I open the desired inbox from my email
    > program. Excel opens it just like it would any other text file -
    > sometimes.
    >
    > Here's my question. The process works flawlessly from my laptop which
    > has Excel 2000 v.9.
    >
    > However, from my desktop, which has the same email program version, but
    > a newer version of Excel (Excel 2002 10.xxx SP-1), it doesn't work. I
    > copied the inbox file that opens fine on my laptop to my desktop. When
    > I try to open it from my desktop (with the newer version of Excel), I
    > always get an error message which says, "(Name of file) is not a valid
    > Web Archive."
    >
    > I don't know what Web Archives have to do with any of this and all of
    > the available Excel converters which come with Microsoft Office have
    > been installed on the machine.
    >
    > Any idea how I can get Excel 2002 to stop creating these error messages
    > and actually open the file?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan Jones
    One way that might work would be to have the new excel save and work
    compatible with excel 2000
    How would I do that? If I could open the file from Excel 2002, I know how to save that as an older version of Excel. But is there a way to make Excel 2002 act like Excel 2000 prior to opening the file? Thanks

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