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Where to download compatibility pack for Excel 2003?

Anonymous
2020-02-25T21:37:13+00:00

When Excel 2003 opens xlsx file, it pops up not compatibility issue, I would like to know on where to download compatibility pack for Excel 2003.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-10T16:37:51+00:00

    Yet again another pathetic response from MSFT!!!!

    Why REMOVE a package from being available?? Come on, it isn't like storage space is expensive!!

    We are not asking for continued updates, but at least keep things available that were available!!!

    If this is how you treat customers (i.e. try to force us to update) then you have zero chance of keeping me as a customer.

    Pathetic!!!

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  2. HansV 462.6K Reputation points
    2020-02-26T12:43:10+00:00

    It is not available from Microsoft any more, as far as I know, but you can get it from download sites such as FileHippo: https://filehippo.com/download_office_compatibility_pack/

    Be careful when downloading from such a site.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-06T18:40:14+00:00

    Download LibreOffice. Its free and is good as, if not better, than Microsoft office. Office 2003 is no longer supported by Microsoft so docx files etc will continue to be a problem.

    Alan

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-27T13:13:05+00:00

    When I install the latest compatibility packs sp3, it pops up message "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system".

    compatibilitypacksp3-kb2526297-fullfile-en-us.exe

    When I install the older compatibility, it installed successfully, but when Excel still fail to open xlsx file.

    FileFormatConverters.exe

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thanks, to everyone very much for any suggestions (^v^)

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-26T13:08:21+00:00

    2003, apart from no updates of any type, as its out of support and is not fully compatible with win10, and unless you did a custom install you will probably be in for problems with the various file locations

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