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by spongebob_2188

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Hi,
I am getting a problem with spreadsheets and documents that I am trying to open using office 97. I get 4-5 error messages stating that the file cannot be found. After all these messages, the document or the spreadsheet opens.
When you open a blank excel sheet and then open the document from file-open, there are no error messages.

Thanking you in advance for your response

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by boxfiddler

in Office 97, or are these files that have been created in newer versions of Office?

Office 07 in particular could be a problem if the document is not specifically saved in 97-03 format.

by spongebob_2188

The document is on a shared folder. It was created partly in 97 and 07. It was saved in the compatibility mode.
She was not getting these messages before but she has changed her PC and now for every document that she opens, she gets these messages.

by seanferd

Is this folder in a different location than it was before? Even if it hasn't moved, it sounds like Office is looking in all the wrong places for the documents.

Other thing you can try is to set the default folder in which Office looks for docs. Even if it's set to the right directory, set it again.

Otherwise, it may still be a compatibility problem. I've heard vaguely about issues with 07 backwards compatibility.

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