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In the iPhone’s newest operating system, Apple arbitrarily dropped support for older 32-bit apps that customers had purchased (see /ybvqytx5). That’s hardly news to regular readers of this column. By abandoning support for old technologies that still work, tech companies force consumers to switch to new technologies. Why does Office 2016 have such limited compatibility with your old Works files? Planned obsolescence. (For a list of file formats Office currently supports, see /yc5pvego). When equipped with some add-on software, called the “Microsoft Works 6-9 Converter” (download it at /y76p9w3l), Office 2016 can convert your “.wps” files to “.docx” files, but it can’t help you with the “.xlr” files. It could read Works files that went as far back as 2002, or convert them to more modern file types.īut Microsoft didn’t design Office 2016 to be backward-compatible with Works files.

You never needed to know that while using Office 2007, because it was “backward compatible” with the files created by Works versions 6 through 9. Files with the “.wps” (document) and “.xlr” (spreadsheet) formats were created by the Microsoft Works program, which Microsoft discontinued after 2007. Office 2007 created Word documents in the “.docx” file format and Excel spreadsheets in the “.xlsx” format. While Office 2007 read the files, Office 2016 will read some or none of them, depending on how it’s set up. They aren’t Microsoft Office files, and new versions of Office are increasingly incompatible with them. If I buy Office Home and Student 2016, will I be able to read my existing files?Ī: You won’t be able to read all of them, for a couple of reasons.

#Microsoft works spreadsheet converter to excel windows 10

I bought a new Windows 10 PC, but have not yet replaced the Office software. Fortunately, I saved all my Office 2007 Word and Excel files, which are in the “.wps” and “.xlr” file formats, on flash drives.

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Q: My 2010 desktop PC crashed in October, taking with it my copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007.