The only program capable of reliably recovering .xlk files would be Excel, the very program that generated the backup in first place. Once recovered, the spreadsheet can be saved to any of the available formats, including the standard XLS format. It is unlikely any other program is capable of xlk to xls conversion of any kind.
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Conversion of xlk file format to xls file format beta
Search for xlk to xls converter or software able to handle these file types.
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We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .xlk to .xls file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert xlk to xls on Windows
Microsoft Excel
A popular spreadsheet application distributed with Microsoft Office suite
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from xlk file | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
to xls file | Yes, Microsoft Excel supports xls file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | Yes | xls editor | Yes | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned xlk to xls. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert xlk to xls on OS X
Microsoft Excel for Mac
A popular spreadsheet application from the Microsoft Office suite
Additional links: Open xlk file, Open xls file
XLK
An xlk file extension is related to Microsoft Excel a spreadsheet editing tool for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X (macOS). An xlk file stores backup of spreadsheet document.
XLS
Files with xls extension are best known as spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel. A spreadsheet is basically a grid of cells sorted in rows and columns. Each cell can contain text, numeric or formula data. Excel XLS spreadsheets can be opened in most other similar programs, such as OpenOffice.org Calc.
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