Older versions of Excel did offer support for the format. On a side note, this list also includes all versions of Lotus 1-2-3 (which was once widely used). Support for Quattro Pro spreadsheets (including recent versions of the format!) was removed altogether from more recent versions of Excel, as shown by this overview of file formats that are not supported in Excel 2010. Quattro Pro for DOS, versions 5.0 and 5.5 (WQ2)įirst of all, let's have a look to what extent contemporary spreadsheet software can handle these formats.Quattro Pro for DOS, versions 1-4 (WQ1).This blog post covers the old Quattro Pro for DOS formats: A number of file formats have been associated with the software. It's still around today as part of the WordPerfect Office suite.
Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program that was first released in 1988. Yes, big words indeed, and if anyone would like to prove me wrong, the comments section below is your friend! It even made me wonder whether, at long last, I had finally run into a case of the much discussed (but rarely observed) phenomenon of format obsolescence. This turned out to be more challenging than expected. Seeing those files again, I decided to spend an afternoon trying to access them using modern-day software. At the time I had also contributed some old Quattro Pro for DOS spreadsheets ( here and here) from my personal archives to the OPF format corpus. While browsing ArchiveTeam's File Formats Wiki earlier this week, I came across some entries I created there on Quattro Pro spreadsheets two years ago.
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