problems opening excel document

[PEO]

ICT teacher is having problems opening an excel document. It opens fine on my machine (office 2003) and opens fine on his teacher workstation (office 2000) but cant open on his laptop (office 2000)

an error is displayed on his laptop 'File error: data may have been lost'

any help much appreciated as im feeling rubbish today and cant get my brain in to gear

cheers

[elsiegee40]

As you can open it (so can I with Office 2003) Have you tried File > Save as in Excel and saving as an earlier version of Excel?

It may be that there are features of this spreadsheet that are not supported by Excel 2000, unfortunately

[SteveBentley]

Just a guess - his 2000 laptop doesn't have the import filters for 2003 files?

[PEO]

As you can open it (so can I with Office 2003) Have you tried File > Save as in Excel and saving as an earlier version of Excel?

It may be that there are features of this spreadsheet that are not supported by Excel 2000, unfortunately

opens fine on his school computer and that has excel 2000

steve I've tried saving it as an early version of excel and no joy

[SteveBentley]

I presume you've tested opening other files on the lappy? It's not just a screwed Excel installation?

[PEO]

yup, that was the 3rd thing i tried Im uninstalling 2000 and installing 2003. needed to be done.

Ive had migraine for 2 days now, feels like my head wants to drop off

[strawberry]

is the laptop properly updated? . probably going to be an update that will fix it, but i'm hopelessly out of my depth with office 2000 so feel free to ignore!