You can simply resave XLSX spreadsheets to older XLS format to increase the compatibility with older versions of Microsoft Excel. Some advanced features from the original spreadsheet might be removed however.
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Conversion of xlsx file format to xls file format beta
Search for xlsx to xls converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Microsoft Excel Open XML workbook and spreadsheet to Microsoft Excel 97 to 2003 workbook.
We have found 25 software records in our database eligible for .xlsx to .xls file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert xlsx 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 xlsx file | Yes, Microsoft Excel supports xlsx file conversion as a source file type. | Yes | Yes | xlsx editor | 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 xlsx 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.
Corel Quattro Pro
A spreadsheet software application from Corel
FileMaker Pro for Windows
A program used to create and manage information databases
Full Convert Enterprise
A powerful database to database converter
Navicat Premium
Fully-featured version of Navicat for Windows
PlanMaker
A handy spreadsheet editor from SoftMaker Office suite
All File to All File Converter 3000
An universal picture and document converter
DBF Manager
A dbf editing and converting tool
Pedigree Explorer
A pedigree software
STATISTICA
A suite of analytics software products
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert xlsx to xls on OS X
Microsoft Excel for Mac
A popular spreadsheet application from the Microsoft Office suite
Numbers for Mac
A spreadsheet application from Apple
FileMaker Pro for Mac
A database management program for Mac
NeoOffice
A full-featured set of office applications for Mac
Linux/Unix software 
- convert xlsx to xls on Linux
Gnumeric
An open-source spreadsheet program
Windows Mobile/CE software - convert xlsx to xls on Windows Mobile
SoftMaker Office for Windows Mobile
A fully working office suite for Windows Phone smart phones
Symbian software 
- convert xlsx to xls on Symbian
OfficeSuite
An Office document editing app running on S60 based smarthones
Apple iOS software 
- convert xlsx to xls on iOS
Numbers for iOS
A preadsheet editing application for iOS
Google Android software 
- convert xlsx to xls on Android
OfficeSuite Professional
A complete mobile office app for Android
Blackberry mobile phones and devices software 
- convert xlsx to xls on Blackberry
eOffice
Office suite app for BlackBerry devices
Multiplatform software 
- convert xlsx to xls on any platform
DriveConverter for Google Drive
Google Chrome extension for Google Drive
LibreOffice Calc
Full-featured spreadsheet tool from LibreOffice suite
Apache OpenOffice Calc (OpenOffice.org Calc)
Spreadsheet program from OpenOffice.org productivity suite
Pyspread
A spreadsheet application
Additional links: Open xlsx file, Open xls file
XLSX
Files with xlsx extension are s used by Microsoft Excel for its workbooks (spreadsheets) in Office Open XML format. XLSX is the latest spreadsheet format used by Excel with the adoption of XML formatting first used in Office 2007. While older xls files were in proprietary binary file format, xlsx spreadsheets use a somewhat altered XML scheme.
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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