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Just as with nonlocalized versions of Microsoft Excel, localized Excel 97 can open and read Excel 2000 workbooks directly. However, for Excel 95 and Excel 5.0 users to share Excel 2000 workbooks, Excel 2000 users must save their workbook in the dual Excel 97-2000 & 5.0/95 format, which is readable by the four latest versions of Excel.
Users of Excel 2000 and previous localized versions can share workbooks as follows:
When you open Excel 95 or Excel 5.0 workbooks in Excel 2000, Excel 2000 converts the text to Unicode. Because Excel 2000 and Excel 97 both support Unicode, Excel 2000 does not need to convert Excel 97 text.
Localized versions of Excel 2000 can display text in workbooks from previous versions of Excel as shown in the following table.
| This language version of Excel 2000 | Can display text in these languages |
|---|---|
| U.S./European | English, European, Asian |
| Asian | English, Asian |
| Right-to-left language (Arabic, Hebrew) | English, European, and a compatible right-to-left language |
Note English and European-language versions of Excel 2000 can display Asian text from Excel 97 workbooks, but not from Excel 95 and Excel 5.0 workbooks.
Excel 97 can directly open and read Excel 2000 workbooks. However, to display Asian or right-to-left (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, or Urdu) text that doesn’t match the language version of Excel 97, you must have the appropriate language support installed on your computer.
For Asian text, you can install the Office 97 Asian support files, but for right-to-left text, you must use a compatible right-to-left language version of Excel 97.
Localized versions of Excel 97 can display Excel 2000 text as shown in the following table.
| This language version of Excel 97 | Can display text in these languages |
|---|---|
| U.S./European | English, European, Asian (Asian requires the Office 97 Asian support files) |
| Asian | English, European, matching Asian and nonmatching Asian (nonmatching Asian requires the Office 97 Asian support files) |
| Right-to-left language (Arabic, Hebrew) | English, European, and a compatible right-to-left language |
Depending on the language, any language version of Excel 95 and Excel 5.0 can open and read Excel 2000 workbooks that are saved in the dual Excel 97-2000 & 5.0/95 format.
Localized versions of Excel 95 and Excel 5.0 can display Excel 2000 text as shown in the following table.
| This language version of Excel 5.0/95 | Can display text in these languages |
|---|---|
| U.S./European | English, European |
| Asian | English and the matching Asian language |
| Right-to-left language (Arabic, Hebrew) | English, European, and a compatible right-to-left language |
When Excel 2000 opens localized workbooks from Excel 95 or Excel 5.0, it translates commands written in Microsoft Visual Basic to English as long as the necessary object library files are installed. If the macro includes procedures written in more than one language, you must install an object library for each language used in the macro.
To install object library files for multilingual macros
Note All Excel 97 macros are compiled in English, so Excel 2000 does not need to translate them.
If your organization is upgrading from a previous version of Excel, there are several strategies for making a smooth transition, beyond cross-language considerations. For more information, see Upgrading to Excel 2000.
The Unicode standard provides unique character values for every language that Office supports and makes it even easier to share multilingual documents. For more information, see Sharing Multilingual Documents.
For some languages, you need to have an operating system and fonts that allow you to display and edit the text. For more information, see Configuring Users' Computers in an International Environment.
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