What software uses the .wks extension?

[Guest_imported]

Hi,&nbsp;&nbsp;I have recently upgraded my friends pc from win95 to 98.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is not able to access his spreedsheet files from the floppy he saved them on..these files have an .wks extension, microsoft office does not recognize the file extension and is unable to open them...<br><br>Any light that you can shed on this matter would be appreciated.<br><br>Pete

 

[Guest_imported]

The files were created by Lotus 1-2-3.<br>You did not mention which Office app you attempted to open the files with, however, according to Microsoft support Excel 97 and Excel 2000 should be able to open the files. Did you try opening the files within Excel?

 

[Alt255]

In the Open File dialogue box you may have to specify the type of file you want to open, e.g. Lotus Worksheet.<br><br>Office is a little weird. Excel doesn't know how to open spreadsheets saved in an earlier version unless you explicitly tell it how to open the file.<br><br>So much for <i>&quot;Where do you want to go today?&quot;</i> A lot of users are beginning to say <i><b>Corel!</i></b> <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

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[reghakr]

These files could also have been created in a old version of Microsoft Works. Your Office install, unless you chose Custom Install, does not install all the graphic viewers and text converters. Get out the CD and choose custom install, and select all viewers and concverters.<br><br>Or download Quick View Plus or some other file viewer of this type, open the file, choose Select All, copy, then paste the info into Excel.<br><br>reghakr

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi<br><br>I just want to say how taken back I am with the respose I got from you all...thanks very much.<br><br>All of the suggestions make sense and I am going to initially to use the custom install option of office 2000 and select all of the viewers and converters.<br><br>As for the original programe...not sure what they were created on..however now have many leads..again thank you all.<br><br>Pete

 

[AndyHo]

I think that they are Microsoft Works originally. Excel can open them (I think) but getting hold of a set of &quot;Works&quot; disks and saving them in a tab delineated form should allow just about anything to open them.