How to stop “Microsoft office excel recalculates formulas when opening files last saved by an earlier version of excel”

Question : How to stop “Microsoft office excel recalculates formulas when opening files last saved by an earlier version of excel”

Thanks in advance for the help.  I have a few users who have just gotten new machines complete with the newest version of office.  When they open files saved by our ealier(–read: 2003 or 2000 office) version they receive this message when closing the file… even if no changes were made to the file.

Question:  is there a way to turn that notification off?


 

Solution: How to stop “Microsoft office excel recalculates formulas when opening files last saved by an earlier version of excel”

 

Go into an Office application – say Excel. Click on the Office Funny Button. Down at the bottom, select Options. Go to Save and set the Save files in this format to 97-2003 format. Do this then for Word, and Powerpoint to get started. … Thinkpads_User