Open a wk4 file in Excel 2007

[Sweetworks]

We recently upgraded to Office 2007.

A user needed to open an old file they use from time to time from Lotus 1-2-3.

It was in a wk4 format.

I tried to open it, but it wouldn't. I looked on Microsofts site and could not find an add-in that would allow you to open the file in 2007. I read on a Developer Blog that they removed support for it.

Am I missing something? Is there a way to open it?

I did have a system running with office 2000, so I was able to open the file with that and save it as an excel file, so I do not need any work-arounds.

I need a permanent solution as I can see this cropping up in the future as he have Lotus Notes for our e-mail and database servers. I can see this coming up again. We will not always have a device with office 2000 on it as my Terminal Server Farm is bing upgraded this summer and will have 2007 on when the upgrade is done.

 

[xlhelp]

Unfortunately, the permanent solution is to keep the old system running as long as you can. There is no Lotus support in Office 2007.

I don't think anyone has yet tried to see if they can add the WK4 DWORD in the registry. I for sure don't want to try it.

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[fumei]

The more I read, the more I want to avoid 2007 for as long as possible. I played with the beta, and hated it. I wrote a white paper for our organization recommending we do not "upgrade". Beside the fact that it would cost us $10 million bucks.

However, this thread has made me think I need to explore more deeply the legacy impact. We could be seriously up the creek if we do not ensure really old (archived) files are re-archived in plain-jane readable format.

Yikes.

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