Although we have written the tutorial specifically for Excel, the information and procedure below are obviously fully applicable to other relevant Microsoft Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint and Visio. xls format files or won’t save changes you make to existing spreadsheets into a new format. In this post we’ll discuss what to actually do if Excel is not opening your existing. Many readers have asked us about how to troubleshoot compatibility issues between older Office versions and the existing version 2016. Is there any possible way to associate or convert Excel 2003 files to/in version 2016 or 2019, so they’ll open up correctly? I have invested significant amount of work in those files and would hate starting all the work from scratch :-(. Now that i have upgraded to the new version, Excel 365 won’t open the existing files telling me that they are corrupted and can’t be opened.
xls files were created in the previous versions of Excel. “I work as an analyst and have a significant number of old. Skyler set us a note about her Microsoft Excel spreadsheet not opening:
