Hi, thanks for taking the time to read this.

I know that if you go into the options to allow Excel to "open" previous versions, there's a lot of check boxes, but checking the appropriate boxes does not let me load the files I need to see.

All that happens every time, is that the file goes through the loading screen and freezes on the last one (the "3 out of 3" indicator shows up, and if I have Excel already started up, then the entire program just freezes and nothing can be clicked on).

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My question is, what exactly is the problem? Why won't the older files open even after I have checked to "allow" them to be opened?