Phantom workbooks

[daofs1]

I'm sure there is a very straightforward answer to this problem but having struggled with it for days to the point of going nuts I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out.

I have recently subscribed to BetAngel and have also recently bought a gleaming new PC running the latest MS Office programmes.

For some reason, I cannot find the Bet Angel Excel templates when I browse via the Guardian interface. or rather sometimes I can and sometimes I can't. More often than not it simply displays a blank folder. I've tried copying them to the desktop and putting them in different drives to no avail.

On the occasion when I have connected , the workbook is automatically protected or needs to be converted or some such.

I suspect this has all got something to do with the nannyish protections and restrictions Microsoft place of new systems and some issue to do with different interations of Excel.

Could someone please put me out of my misery

Many thanks

[Fidib665]

When looking for the files to connect to, you can in the lower right corner select in the pulldown menue to show all files (not only Excel 97). Does it then still not show the files, you are looking for?

[daofs1]

Yes, that works. Don't really understand why!
But thank you very much anyway
Is there any wayo to avoid having to manually slect all file types?

[Fidib665]

Not entirely sure but guess, it should work when you are saving your Excel files as Excel '03 files.
Cheers, F

[daofs1]

Very much appreciate your help. I've just switched back from Macs to Windows just so I could use Bet Angel and I'm now rediscovering why I loathe Bill Gates

[Fidib665]