Comments on: Excel Tip – Defaulting to Non-Compatibility Mode

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:40:33 +0000

Awesome! Thanks!!!

By: Ben Sullins

Ben Sullins — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:20:31 +0000

Thanks Justin,

As mentioned before, the solution I posted here is to get around your companies group policy that prevents users from following the default way of changing this.

By: Ben Sullins

Ben Sullins — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:18:27 +0000

Hi Steve,

This solution is for when the basic method doesn’t work due to a group policy in your domain which forces it to be in ‘compatibility mode’. I didn’t set out to write a blog that repeats the microsoft help menu

By: Ben Sullins

Ben Sullins — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:17:04 +0000

Hi Bill,

Try the first basic way to do it, and if that doesn’t work try going through the steps I laid out in the blog post.

Go to Excel Options -> Save -> Save Workbooks ->Save file in this format -> Select “Excel Workbook”. The default is Excel 97-2003 Workbook”

By: Ben Sullins

Ben Sullins — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:14:58 +0000

Yeah you have to be careful to do ‘save-as’ so you don’t overwrite your default workbook.

By: sekk

sekk — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:43:03 +0000

Thanks for the tip.
It helped me display morethan 65*** rows.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:53:15 +0000

Excellent – worked perfectly for me.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:48:35 +0000

Click the Office Button in an Excel worksheet. Go to Excel Options, click on Save and change the setting “Save files in this format:” to “Excel Workbook”. Click OK to save your changes and exit the workbook. Open a new workbook and VIOLA!…it should default to the Excel 2007 workbook format.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:21:45 +0000

Thank you so much! Your tip works great!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:48:37 +0000

There’s one more step needed to save an old XLS as a new XLSX with more rows in the sheets. Create a new blank XLSX (outside compatability mode, getting there however works for you in the above). Then copy/move the old worksheets across to the new XLSX.