Hi all,cananyone help me please,I have microsoft word and excel installed on my pc,and I want to open a document which is an "xlr" file (works spreadsheet) everytime i try to open it with word it opens and all the text is in code,how do I read it properly ?
Also,can the format of this file be changed so that is becomes a "word or excel" file format.
Hope yous can help

thanks in advance.

Is it MS Office 97/ 2000/ XP ?

You need proper plugin to convert Works Spreadsheet to any of MS Office format. I am not sure but you can try adding a component to your existing Office Installation using Office Installation CD. Go to Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs -> Select Office and hit Add/ Remove. It will then give you an option to add / Repair/ Remove Office. Hit Add Component and select Customized Installation (setup).

HTH !!

Have you tried opening the file with excel then going..Save As..then change the type of format...where it says..Save as type..

its microsoft office 2000 Premium installed on windows xp.
i opened the file in excel like said but dont know what format to save as.

If you want it to be a excel file, save it as .xls
If you want it to be a word file, save it as .doc, .rtf or even .txt (.txt will open in Notepad)
.doc is word`s native format.

i still can not open this file , how do I un-scramble the code that appears

I'm running XP and receive quite a few xlr files. If I just change the extension from xlr to xls, they open without any problems.