Windows Excel 2007 to MAC Excel 2008 Issues

[Twister]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have created a spreadsheet in Windows on an XP machine using Excel 2007 and sent it via email in both .xls and .xlsx formats. I downloaded via Entourage and saved to hard drive. When I attempt to open either I get the following message:
"the file might have been damaged or modified from its original format"

I am running Office 2008 Excel 12.1.5 (latest at time of post)

Thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

Try sending a zipped attachment instead of a bare naked copy - odds are it's
the email software that's rendering the file useless.

 

[Twister]

Bob,
I tried zipping file using native tool within XP but when I saved it to the Mac and tried to open it, the archiver file could not open it.
I tried to send it to myself using gmail instead of Outlook but still get the same results.
Driving me nuts as I want to work on this file while I am away. I haven't tried Word yet, I guess that will be my next test too.

I really don't want to re-create this file.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have created a spreadsheet in Windows on an XP machine using Excel 2007 and sent it via email in both .xls and .xlsx formats. I downloaded via Entourage and saved to hard drive. When I attempt to open either I get the following message:
"the file might have been damaged or modified from its original format"

I am running Office 2008 Excel 12.1.5 (latest at time of post)

Thanks

Hi,

It's also possible that when you sent it as an attachment from Windows
that you had it open in Excel or some other application may have been
accessing it at the time, say for example, Word for a mail merge. Make
sure Excel is closed on Windows before attaching a document to an email
unless you use Excel's built-in Send To feature.

-Jim

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP


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