XLS files are Excel workbook files created in Excel 97 or Excel 2003. The 2007, 2010 and 2013 versions of the program use the XLSX format by default to save workbooks, but can also use the XLS format.

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DBF (database) files, wildly popular with business PC owners in the 80s and 90s, have since been replaced by newer technologies. Luckily, if your company is still using DBFs, a few different software ...

While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...

If you notice that your Excel files are opening in Notepad, then read this post to learn how to fix the issue. The default behavior of a document or file is to open in the application with which it ...

You can use three programs to convert DBF file to Excel file format in Windows 11/10: Convert DBF to Excel in Microsoft Excel Use DBF Viewer Plus to convert DBF to Excel Convert DBF to Excel using ...

Microsoft Excel has several features designed to help you recover unsaved versions of spreadsheets and prevent data loss. If Excel closes before you save a file, you should see a Document Recovery tab ...

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I'm hearing rumblings about some of our APAC users taking minutes at a time to load excel files over the network from the local file server. This seemed to start about 3 weeks ago, the troubleshooting ...