On 11/21/07 11:09 AM, Mark wrote: > Our (stupid) management application is set up to export data as Excel xml > Spreadsheets, openable in Office 2003 > I am running Office 2004, NeoOffice, iWork 08, OpenOffice (though VMWare > Fusion) and TextMate! Nothing can access this information. I even installed > the MS document converter ... but that tells me the file is not valid (i.e. > Not 2007) Have you tried "importing" or "placing" the data into one of your apps, rather than opening it?