Windows 10: Compatibility Pack for pre-2007 Office not working in Win10 for xlsx

Being cheap and "if it ain' t broke, don't fix it" I'm using my Office 2000 on my Windows 10 machine. Just as I've been using it for almost 20 years, in multiple operating systems.

When Office 2007 came out, and the docx and xlsx formats, Windows provided a "Compatibility Pack" to allow older versions of the Office software to open the new file formats.

I downloaded that onto the Windows 10 machine, ran it, and it works fine for docx files - Word 2000 can open, read, edit, save them.

But not so for xlsx files with Excel 2000.

A lot of these compatibility packs, maybe all, are gone from the web. I transferred to my Win10 machine from my Win7 machine the FileConverters.exe (version 12.0.6514.5001) that worked great in Windows 7 and ran it. But still, no fix. And I can, using that same version, use Excel 2000 on xlsx files in Windows 7.

Is there some Windows 10 trick I need to do, to enable Excel 2000 to work for me, as it does in Windows 7?

:)

 

Will my Office 2007 be compatible with Windows 10?

Yes

Which versions of Microsoft Office work on Windows 10?

The following versions of Microsoft Office with the latest Service Packs have been confirmed to be compatible with Windows 10:

• Office 2016 Preview
• Office 2013/Office 365
• Office 2010
• Office 2007

Older versions of Office such as Office 2003 and Office XP are not certified compatible with Windows 10 but might work using compatibility mode.

 

Office Compatibility Pack released

The Office 2000, XP, and 2003 formats are compatible with 2007. This is saying that the 2007 format is now compatible with the other 3.

 

Office Compatibility Pack released

Microsoft has released a new compatibility pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file formats. This pack should allow Office 2000, XP or 2003 users to open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations using the Office 2007 format, which may be useful to people moving documents between work and home where different versions of Office are in use. Before you install the pack, make sure you have installed all high priority updates from Microsoft Update – you can download the 27.5MB pack here.

Source: Microsoft