You can certainly open old .sylk files (Symbolic Links) in Excel or similar spreadsheet editors. The more common extension for this files would be slk, so you might have better luck with slk to xls conversion to find more options.
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Conversion of sylk file format to xls file format beta
Search for sylk to xls converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Microsoft Excel for Mac Symbolic Link to Microsoft Excel 97 to 2003 workbook.
We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .sylk to .xls file format conversion.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert sylk to xls on OS X
Microsoft Excel for Mac
A popular spreadsheet application from the Microsoft Office suite
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from sylk file | No | Yes | Yes | sylk editor | Yes | No | No | No |
to xls file | Yes, Microsoft Excel for Mac 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 sylk 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.
Linux/Unix software 
- convert sylk to xls on Linux
Gnumeric
An open-source spreadsheet program
Additional links: Open sylk file, Open xls file
SYLK
An sylk file extension is related to the Microsoft Excel for Mac, a spreadsheet editing software from Microsoft. An sylk file stores Symbolic Link.
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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