Excel 2003 format is in a wrong format with error "The file was created using a later version of Excel"

Aspose.Cells Product Family
1

Hi,

When we create an Excel 2003 format workbook, and open the resulting file in Excel and selected Save, Excel displays this message:

"The file was created using a later version of Excel. There is a remote possibility that certain workbook properties specific to the later version may be lost if you save the file in this version"

The code used to create this is very simple:

We have an existing (valid) Excel 2003 format XLS workbook, which we uses Aspose.Cells to create a new workbook from

Aspose.Cells.Workbook book = new Aspose.Cells.Workbook();
book.Open("C:\BaseWorkbook.xls");
book.Save("C:\MyNewWorkbook.xls", Aspose.Cells.FileFormatType.Excel97To2003);

When we open the new workbook (C:\MyNewWorkbook.xls) it open fine. If we then press Save, then we get the mentioned error message.
This is using Aspose Cells 4.9.0.0

Regards
Thomas

2

Hi,

Well, since you are using some older version of the product for which we are not sure (if this was an issue with it or not). But, we recommend you to try our latest versions if possible. For Example, please try the attached latest version v5.2.2.3 as it should work fine with it using the code below. If you still find any issue, give us your template files here, we will check it soon.
Sample code (using latest version):
Aspose.Cells.Workbook book = new Aspose.Cells.Workbook(“C:\BaseWorkbook.xls”);
book.Save(“C:\MyNewWorkbook.xls”);


Thank you.