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Quicksheet garbles Excel files ?

2 replies · 2,166 views · Started 05 December 2003

Anyone have a problem with Quicksheet messing up edited Excel files?

I edited a file on the phone, dragged it to my desktop, opened it with Excel, but the contents just look like XML and not how the sheet should look.

Am I being dense, or is this a problem with my version of Office ( Excel 2000 9.0.4402 SR-1) or what?

Any ideas?

I belive (wouldn't swear to it) that QuickOffice is only fully compatible with Office XP and above as it uses XML. I have the same problem trying to read QuickWord documents on Office 97 at work.

Thankfully, I have Office XP at home so I use that to read the files and then save them in legacy format to send to my work machine.

That would make sense of the results, but doesn't seem like a very sensible choice on their part...

I'll look into, but I haven't found any relevant info on their site yet