Open old Lotus and Quattro Pro files in XLSX
Open old Lotus and Quattro Pro files in XLSX
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My company migrated to Office 2007 with Excel 2007. I have some old spreadsheets with the extensions WB1, WQ1, and WK1 from old versions of Quattro Pro and Lotus IIRC. I asked our IT dept if there is a converter out there and they were less than helpful saying I needed to find and install the old software and save the files in Excel format. I don't think Excel was around when I was using Lotus in the 1980's so I doubt that it had a SAVEAS function to convert to XLS format.
Is there a cheap way to convert the old WQ1 files to something Excel 2007 could open? I searched the web and found a couple that claim to do it but the trial version makes the formulas into text and numbers. I want the formulas to translate.
I also tried Open Office which someone said would do it but was not very successful. I found a Gnumeric that will open one of the formats but not the other two. Has anyone done this? As big and powerful as MS seems to be, it seems to me that they would be able to open any spreadsheet as far back as Visicalc.
TIA
Is there a cheap way to convert the old WQ1 files to something Excel 2007 could open? I searched the web and found a couple that claim to do it but the trial version makes the formulas into text and numbers. I want the formulas to translate.
I also tried Open Office which someone said would do it but was not very successful. I found a Gnumeric that will open one of the formats but not the other two. Has anyone done this? As big and powerful as MS seems to be, it seems to me that they would be able to open any spreadsheet as far back as Visicalc.
TIA
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RE: Open old Lotus and Quattro Pro files in XLSX
The only other option I can think of is to install an old copy of Smartsuite and/or whatever the Borland Office package is called.
I just checked my copy of Smartsuite and it does have options for opening WQ1, WB1 and WB2, and should open any of the old Lotus formats.
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RE: Open old Lotus and Quattro Pro files in XLSX
I'll try to look for Smartsuite around the web.
My old spreadsheets are probably just pieces of extraneous things I was doing at the time but just looking at the file names and knowing that I can't see what is in them bugs me no end. I had wrongly assumed Excel would open them forever. IIRC, Excel 2003 or the previous version (2000?) would open them because I have saved some in XLS format.
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