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by lady_jt

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I have a desktop that is running XP, with excel and word ver. 2000, When i access the network with my laptop, running vista....i cannot read my files from the desktop...vista tells me the file format is not vaild..is there anyway to be able to read the files without upgrading software & os ?

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by demosthanese

Vista is using office not works right? If so you should be able to open them in compatibility mode. Try saving a local copy and openning them just to make sure.

by lady_jt

Yes, using word and excel same on both computers, tried that but still get error message that file format is not valid....

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