Compatibility with Microsoft Excel and Other Products

You can retrieve spreadsheets in the following formats:

If EasySpreadsheet cannot open an Excel file, then the Excel Viewer is automatically called.

The Excel Viewer can open almost all Excel files from Excel 2.0 to Excel 2000 files. (However, while you can view and print the files, you cannot edit them inside the Excel Viewer.)

 

You can retrieve and save spreadsheets in the following formats:

EasySpreadsheet File Format (*.ess) - This is the default file format used by Easy Spreadsheet.

Microsoft® Excel File Format (*.xls) - The Easy Spreadsheet files that you save in Excel95-2000 format, should in general, be perfectly compatible with Excel (i.e., another person using Excel will be able to perfectly load in your spreadsheet).  However, at this time, graphics are not saved by EasySpreadsheet into the *.xls file format.  In the next major version of Easy Spreadsheet, it is expected that EasySpreadsheet will both save and retrieve 2-dimensional graphics in the Excel *.xls file format.

You should be able to successfully retrieve most Excel spreadsheets.  However, if the Excel spreadsheet contains a function not supported in EasySpreadsheet (generally the less-used, specialized functions), the error message #FUNCTION! (or something similar) may appear in the formula bar.  In the next major version of EasySpreadsheet, it is expected that most, if not all, of Excel's functions will be incorporated into EasySpreadsheet.

Tab delimited text files (*.txt) - An industry-standard spreadsheet file format.  EasySpreadsheet graphics, however, usually do not save in this format.

Comma separated files (*.csv) -  An industry-standard spreadsheet file format.  EasySpreadsheet graphics, however, usually do not save in this format.

HTML Web Page files (*.htm) - The present version of EasySpreadsheet can save the spreadsheet data (but not the graphics) as an industry-standard Web (html) file.

Encrypted zip files (*.zip) - The present version of EasySpreadsheet can save as a password-protected encrypted zip file. Any standard zip program (or EasySpreadsheet itself) can un-encrypt  and decompress this file.

 

"How do I import a Lotus123 file into EasySpreadsheet?"

EasySpreadsheet does not have a Lotus123 filter.

If you want to convert old Lotus123 spreadsheets to EasyOffice, then you should from Lotus123 first save them as generic CSV (or other standard file format) spreadsheet files. Then you can import these files into EasySpreadsheet.

 

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