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Subject: Re: MISC. QUESTIONS
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Date: 18 Jan 90 13:18:00 GMT
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>1.  Lotus 123 - Before installing the network various students
>    created spreadsheets using a "student version" of 123.  The
>    network now uses a "real" version (2.01).  When trying to
>    use previously created spreadsheets, the system replies that
>    the spreadsheet cannot be accessed.  Any ideas?  Would the
>    translate program solve this problem?

You might want to check the file extensions, I remember that they
changed from .wks to .wk1 when Lotus went from release 1 to release 2
and that release 2 could read release 1's files, but not the reverse.

A kind of cumbersome workaround comes to mind if you can't think of
anything else...that would be to print the worksheet to a file using
the student version then use the file import, data parse, etc. to get
it back into a usable worksheet.  Like I said it's not pretty.  I'm
not familiar with the translate program but I would certainly start there
before I was willing to retype all my formulas (you would loose them doing
the above).

Brian Hughes
Tech Support Mgr
Idaho State University
hughesb@csc.isu.edu