Converting Lotus 123 files

[David Curry]

Robert L Cochran wrote:

> Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:44:22 +0100
>> "J.L. Coenders" <fedora at universalgrid.nl> wrote:
>>
>> [Lotus 123 files]
>>
>>  
>>
>>> A friend asked me if I could find out how to open these files.
>>> Openoffice  doesnt seem to do the job.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> That's news to me.  I routinely open the .wk1 files generated by 
>> Lotus 123
>> (on my HP 200LX palmtop) in Open Office.  Just use File/Open like you
>> would for a regular Open Office spreadsheet.
>>
>> Admittedly, the spreadsheets I make on my HP aren't obscenely 
>> complex, but
>> I;ve had no real trouble opening them.  What sort of problems are you
>> having?
>>
>>  
>>
> OpenOffice (OO) calc does seem to have a converter for Lotus 1-2-3 
> files, but I have not needed to use it myself. OO opens Excel 
> spreadsheets just fine, with the exception that it cannot open those 
> of my wife's spreadhseets which have more than 33,000 or so rows (the 
> actual number is 32,767 or so.) She has numerous Excel documents with 
> more than 60,000 rows. And complains that Excel can't do as many rows 
> as she wants, too.
>
> Bob Cochran
>
Try Gnumeric, Bob.  It does handle more rows than oo.o and can take wk1 
format.