Windows Excel Doc displays html/xml code in '04/'08

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OfficeUser

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

Hi,

This occurs in Office 2004 or 2008, both with the latest updates. This occurs in either Leopard or Tiger - also with the latest updates:

An Excel document that was created in (PC) Office 2003 with .xls extension will not open properly in the Mac version of Excel. The document will open & display properly in Office 2007 or 2003.

Here is a snippet of the first several lines of the file as displayed on the Mac:

* **Begin Snippet***

MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Document-Type: Workbook
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="sheet-boundary"

#NAME?
Content-Location: file:///C:/temp/book.htm
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset="unicode"

<html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:eek:=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice"
xmlns:x=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:excel"
xmlns=3D"http://www.domain.com <http://www.domain.com>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">

* ***End Snippet****

There are several more lines of header information, followed by a lot of formatting ifo that has the following structure:

* **Begins Snippet*** .xl35
{mso-style-parent:style0;
font-family:Times New Roman;
text-align:left;
vertical-align:middle;
white-space:normal;
border-left:.5pt solid #c0c0c0;
border-top:none;
border-right:none;
border-bottom:.5pt solid #c0c0c0;
}
* **End Snippet***

Thanks for any advice!

Bob
 
B

Bob Greenblatt

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

Hi,

This occurs in Office 2004 or 2008, both with the latest updates. This occurs
in either Leopard or Tiger - also with the latest updates:

An Excel document that was created in (PC) Office 2003 with .xls extension
will not open properly in the Mac version of Excel. The document will open &
display properly in Office 2007 or 2003.

Here is a snippet of the first several lines of the file as displayed on the
Mac:

* **Begin Snippet***

MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Document-Type: Workbook
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="sheet-boundary"

#NAME?
Content-Location: file:///C:/temp/book.htm
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset="unicode"

<html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:eek:=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice"
xmlns:x=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:excel"
xmlns=3D"http://www.domain.com <http://www.domain.com>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">

* ***End Snippet****

There are several more lines of header information, followed by a lot of
formatting ifo that has the following structure:

* **Begins Snippet*** .xl35
{mso-style-parent:style0;
font-family:Times New Roman;
text-align:left;
vertical-align:middle;
white-space:normal;
border-left:.5pt solid #c0c0c0;
border-top:none;
border-right:none;
border-bottom:.5pt solid #c0c0c0;
}
* **End Snippet***

Thanks for any advice!

Bob
Click to expand...
Looks to me as though the windows user saved the file as HTML and then
changed the extension to xls.
 
O

OfficeUser

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply. I agree, this looks like some sort of html/xml code, but I'm confused as to why this would open perfectly in PC Excel 2003/2007...I mean the same file opens & displays correctly on the PC version but not in the Mac version (2004/2008). This eliminates the possibility of a mis-saved document.

Thanks,

Bob
 
B

Bob Greenblatt

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply. I agree, this looks like some sort of html/xml code,
but I'm confused as to why this would open perfectly in PC Excel 2003/2007...I
mean the same file opens & displays correctly on the PC version but not in the
Mac version (2004/2008). This eliminates the possibility of a mis-saved
document.

Thanks,

Bob
Click to expand...
Well, not necessarily. There usually is an associated folder of other html
stuff which may be on the windows machine and not on the Mac.
 

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