Files to Convert. File Name File Size Progress. You're in good company: Zamzar has converted over million files since The release of Microsoft Excel 97 was a major leap forward in terms of functionality and usability compared to the previous version, Excel Excel , Excel XP and Excel all followed featuring tweaks to the appearance and functionality however the core application remained consistent.
It was during this period that computers became incredibly popular for both personal and business use resulting in Excel becoming the de facto spreadsheet application. Excel provided functionality to a basic user with a requirement to store data in an organised fashion up to advanced users requiring formulas, charts and pivot tables.
This was a binary file format. Later versions of Excel make use of a XML for file formats. What to do Use PivotTable filters instead of slicers to filter the data. A slicer style exists in this workbook, and is not supported in earlier versions of Excel.
This slicer style will not be saved. What it means A custom slicer style will be lost when the workbook is saved to the file format of an earlier version of Excel.
What to do Change the custom slicer style to a built-in slicer style before you save the workbook to an earlier Excel file format Slicer Tools , Options tab, Slicer Styles gallery. A PivotTable in this workbook contains one or more fields that contain repeated labels. If the PivotTable is refreshed, these labels will be lost. What it means Repeated labels are not supported in Excel , and the labels will be lost when you refresh the PivotTable report in the earlier version of Excel.
Add, change, or clear conditional formats. Unsupported sorting and filtering features can cause the following compatibility issues, leading to a minor loss of fidelity.
A worksheet in this workbook contains a sort state with more than three sort conditions. This information will be lost in earlier versions of Excel. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can apply sort states with up to sixty-four sort conditions to sort data by, but Excel supports sort states with up to three conditions only. To avoid losing sort state information in Excel , you may want to change the sort state to one that uses no more than three conditions.
In Excel , you can also sort the data manually. However, all sort state information remains available in the workbook and is applied when the workbook is opened again in Excel and later, unless the sort state information is edited in Excel What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the data that has been sorted with more than three conditions, and then change the sort state by using only three or less conditions.
A worksheet in this workbook contains a sort state that uses a sort condition with a custom list. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can sort by a custom list. To get similar sorting results in Excel , you can group the data that you want to sort, and then sort the data manually.
What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the data that has been sorted by a custom list, and then change the sort state so that it no longer contains a custom list. A worksheet in this workbook contains a sort state that uses a sort condition that specifies formatting information. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can sort data by a specific format, such as cell color, font color, or icon sets.
In Excel , you can sort only text. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the data that has been sorted by a specific format, and then change the sort state without specifying formatting information. Some data in this workbook is filtered in a way that is not supported in earlier versions of Excel. Rows that are hidden by the filter will remain hidden, but the filter itself will not display correctly in earlier versions of Excel.
What it means Beginning with Excel , you can apply filters that are not supported in Excel To avoid losing filter functionality, you may want to clear the filter before you save the workbook in an earlier Excel file format. In Excel , you can then filter the data manually. However, all filter state information remains available in the workbook and is applied when the workbook is opened again in Excel and later, unless the filter state information is edited in Excel What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the data that has been filtered, and then you can clear the filter to unhide the rows that are hidden.
Some data in this workbook is filtered by a cell color. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can filter by a cell color, font color, or icon set — these methods are not supported in Excel Some data in this workbook is filtered by a font color. Some data in this workbook is filtered by a cell icon. Some data in this workbook is filtered by more than two criteria.
What it means Beginning with Excel , you can filter data by more than two criteria. Some data in this workbook is filtered by a grouped hierarchy of dates, resulting in more than two criteria. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can filter dates by a grouped hierarchy. Because this is not supported in Excel , you may want to ungroup the hierarchy of dates. If you're using Excel , press the Office button , then Excel Options.
Unsupported formula features can cause the following compatibility issues, leading to a significant loss of functionality or a minor loss of fidelity. Some worksheets contain more array formulas that refer to other worksheets than are supported by the selected file format. What it means Beginning with Excel , workbook arrays that refer to other worksheets are limited only by available memory, but in Excel , worksheets can only contain up to 65, workbook arrays that refer to other worksheets.
What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that contain array formulas that refer to another worksheet, and then make the necessary changes to avoid VALUE! What it means Beginning with Excel , the maximum length of formula contents is 8, characters, and the maximum internal formula length is 16, bytes.
In Excel , the maximum length of formula contents is 1, characters, and the maximum internal formula length is 1, bytes. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain formulas that exceed the maximum formula length limits of Excel , and then make the necessary changes to avoid VALUE! Some formulas have more levels of nesting than are supported by the selected file format. What it means Beginning with Excel , a formula can contain up to 64 levels of nesting, but in Excel , the maximum levels of nesting is only 7.
What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain formulas with more than 7 levels of nesting, and then make the necessary changes to avoid VALUE! Some formulas contain functions that have more arguments than are supported by the selected file format. Formulas that have more than 30 arguments per function will not be saved and will be converted to VALUE!
What it means Beginning with Excel , a formula can contain up to arguments, but in Excel , the maximum limit of arguments in a formula is only What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain formulas with more than 30 arguments, and then make the necessary changes to avoid VALUE!
Some formulas use more operands than are allowed by the selected file format. What it means Beginning with Excel , the maximum number of operands that can be used in formulas is 1,, but in Excel , the maximum limit of operands in formulas is only What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain formulas with more than 40 operands, and then make the necessary changes to avoid VALUE! Some formulas contain functions with more arguments than are supported by the selected file format.
What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain functions that use more than 29 arguments, and then make the necessary changes to avoid VALUE! You may have to use VBA code to change user-defined functions. One or more functions in this workbook are not available in earlier versions of Excel.
When recalculated in earlier versions, these functions will return a NAME? What it means Beginning with Excel , new and renamed functions were added. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain functions that are not available in earlier versions of Excel, and then make the necessary changes to avoid NAME? Compatibility functions are available for all functions that have been renamed. To avoid errors, you can use those functions instead.
New functions can be replaced with appropriate functions that are available in the earlier versions of Excel. You can also remove formulas that use new functions by replacing them with the formula results.
Some formulas contain references to tables that are not supported in the selected file format. These references will be converted to cell references.
What it means Beginning with Excel , you can use structured references to make it much easier and more intuitive to work with table data when you are using formulas that reference a table, either portions of a table, or the entire table. This feature is not supported in Excel , and structured references will be converted to cell references. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain formulas with structured references to tables so that you can change them to the cell references that you want to use.
Some formulas contain references to tables in other workbooks that are not currently open in this instance of Excel. These references will be converted to REF on save to Excel format because they cannot be converted to sheet references. However, if the structured references point to tables in other workbooks that are not currently open, they will be converted to and displayed as REF errors. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain formulas with structured references to tables in other workbooks so that you can change them to avoid REF errors.
One or more cells in this workbook contain data validation rules which refer to more than discontinuous areas of cells. These data validation rules will not be saved. What it means Beginning with Excel , data validation rules can refer to more than discontinuous areas of cells.
In Excel , this type of data validation rule is not supported and won't be available. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that contain data validation rules that refer to more than discontinuous areas of cells, and then make the necessary changes. One or more cells in this workbook contain data validation rules which refer to values on other worksheets.
These data validation rules will not be supported in earlier versions of Excel. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can implement data validation rules that refer to values on other worksheets. This is not supported in Excel What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the cells that contain data validation rules that refer to values on other worksheets, and then make the necessary changes so that the data validation rules refer to values on the same worksheet.
What it means Beginning with Excel , you can use data validation rules that refer to values on other worksheets. In Excel , this type of data validation is not supported and cannot be displayed on the worksheet. However, all data validation rules remain available in the workbook and are applied when the workbook is opened again in Excel and later, unless the rules were edited in Excel What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that contain data validation rules that refer to values on other worksheets, and then make the necessary changes on the Settings tab of the Data Validation dialog box Data tab, Data Tools group.
This workbook contains a Data Consolidation Range with references to cells outside of the row and column limits of the selected file format. Formula references to data in this region will be adjusted and may not display correctly in an earlier version of Excel.
What it means Beginning with Excel , data consolidation ranges can contain formulas that refer to data outside of the row and column limit of the selected file format. In Excel , worksheet size of 65, rows tall by columns wide.
Formula references to data in cells outside of this column and row limit are adjusted and may not display correctly. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate data consolidation ranges that contain formula references to data outside of the row and column limit of Excel , and then make the necessary changes. Some array formulas in this workbook refer to an entire column. In earlier versions of Excel, these formulas may be converted to NUM!
What it means Beginning with Excel , array formulas that refer to an entire column will be converted to and displayed as NUM! What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the array formulas that refer to an entire column so that you can make the necessary changes to avoid NUM errors.
One or more defined names in this workbook contain formulas that use more than the characters allowed in the selected file format. These formulas will be saved but will be truncated when edited in earlier versions of Excel. What it means When named ranges in formulas exceed the character limit that is supported in Excel , the formula will work correctly, but it will be truncated in the Name dialog box and cannot be edited. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that contain named ranges in formulas, and then make the necessary changes so that users can edit the formulas in Excel Some formulas in this workbook are linked to other workbooks that are closed.
When these formulas are recalculated in earlier versions of Excel without opening the linked workbooks, characters beyond the character limit cannot be returned. What it means When formulas in a workbook are linked to other workbooks that are closed, they can only display up to characters when they are recalculated in Excel The formula results might be truncated. What to do Find the cells that contain formulas that link to other workbooks that are closed so that you can verify the links and make the necessary changes to avoid truncated formula results in Excel What it means When Data Validation formulas exceed the character limit that is supported in Excel , the formula will work correctly, but it will be truncated and cannot be edited.
What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that contain Data Validation formulas, and then use fewer characters in the formula so that users can edit them in Excel Some formulas contain arrays with more elements than are supported by the selected file format. Arrays with more than columns or rows will not be saved and may produce different results. What it means Beginning with Excel , you can use array formulas that contain elements for more than columns and rows.
In Excel , this exceeds the limit for array elements and might return different results. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that contain array formulas that have more elements than are supported in earlier versions of Excel, and then make the necessary changes.
All custom descriptions will be removed. Custom descriptions are not supported in Excel and will be removed. What to do No action is needed because all custom descriptions will be removed. For more information about how to resolve one or more of these compatibility issues, see What's New: Changes made to Excel functions.
Unsupported conditional formatting features can cause the following compatibility issues, leading to a significant loss of functionality. Some cells have more conditional formats than are supported by the selected file format. Only the first three conditions will be displayed in earlier versions of Excel. What it means Beginning with Excel , conditional formatting can contain up to sixty-four conditions, but in Excel , you will see the first three conditions only.
However, all conditional formatting rules remain available in the workbook and are applied when the workbook is opened again in Excel and later, unless the rules were edited in Excel What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate cells that have conditional formatting applied that use more than three conditions, and then make the necessary changes to use no more than three conditions.
Some cells have overlapping conditional formatting ranges. Earlier versions of Excel will not evaluate all of the conditional formatting rules on the overlapping cells. Adele convinces Spotify to remove shuffle from all albums. PS5 restock updates. Black Friday deals. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases.
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