Hi,
You received insider information from a top Hedge Fund manager. Information is gathered in a word document, data analysis in an Excel spreadsheet. Hastily you download the files, 2x click. You just can’t wait, in a couple of days, thanks to this information you’ll finally be a High Net Worth customer, private bankers will invite you for wine tasting sessions and golf contests! But… nothing happens. Is the file encrypted??
Yes and no. You friend may just have overlooked that he’s using Office 2007 and 99% of Office users are still using earlier versions of the same software. Mesmerized by the all the new opportunities offered by Word or Excel 2007 (you no longer are limited to 256 columns for 65535 rows wohoooooooooo!!) that person will have saved the file in the “new” native format.
This happened to me before I get a trial version of the latest Office Pack. I didnt really know what to do with the file that Excel didn’t even recognize. Read the rest of this entry »
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