Lotus 123

Lotus 123

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I have some files prepared about 10/15 years ago with the old Lotus 123 spreadsheet programme. 

Obviously I no longer have Lotus 123. 

Does anyone know of a cheap (preferably free) application that will read these files?  I don't need to be able to copy them or anything, simply access them so that I can read a couple of addresses. 

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David Winch
By David Winch
19th Nov 2011 11:51

Excel?

Can you open the files with Excel or perhaps Works or some other spreadsheet program which you do have?

David

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By qasimjavid
19th Nov 2011 12:44

It seems MS removed the option to use Lotus files from office 2007 onwards

if you have a copy of excel 2003 somewhere you can use that

otherwise google suggests some converters/viewers i.e. http://www.scalabium.com/fdv/

for further information we need to know the filetype - .123/.wk3/.wk4?

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By jpcentral
19th Nov 2011 13:08

Libre Office

A program called Libre Office seems to open them just fine. This is a variation of Open Office so that program might also open them.

Both programs are free.

 

John Perry

www.centralbusiness.co.uk

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By DJ
19th Nov 2011 14:14

Thanks

Installed Open Office and it reads them perfectly.  You lose the formatting but get all the data whicj is great.  I'll leave Open Office installed as I'm bound to need to access another old spreadsheet at some time. 

 

Thanks for the suggestions - saved me a dusty scramble through boxes of old files.:)

 

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By qasimjavid
19th Nov 2011 17:21

Good to know that OpenOffice/LibreOffice work fine with them - google results gave conflicting views

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By paulwakefield1
20th Nov 2011 09:47

There is a free viewer here:

ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/

 

BUT it does not work on 64 bit OS

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