Excel 2007 Workaround: opening WKS documents

[dbMark]

If you have trouble opening a WKS spreadsheet in Excel 2007, try this workaround to at least read in the file.

Open Excel 2007
Select - Data
Select - From Other Sources
Select - From xml Data Import
Locate and select your WKS document
Click open
Select – existing worksheet

Previous posts on related WKS topics:

diogenes10 - closed threads:
thread69-1430650: Are Lotus files really insecure?
thread69-1478465: Excel 2003 open/save Lotus file types
with registry fixes:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810

dianemarie - closed thread:
thread69-1422695: Excel 2007 and Lotus