Raiser's Edge exporting to an old version of excel...help!!

It looks that article is from 2015. There is another discussion thread.

Unfortunately I have not seen any new announcements from Blackbaud about this.

Hi Kristen.

We also used to export some things in Excel 2007 format. As of this week the Excel 2007 format is no longer listed in the Export Format options, although it is still set as my Default Export format in my user options - go figure. Maybe it took longer for the changes to be made in the Sydney datacentre. I assume this is part of the Microsoft Integration changes.

Sometimes we want Excel, not csv, because it is easier to just open, without worrying about corrupting data formats, like post codes or phone numbers that start with zero etc. I don’t always want to bother with importing csv data into Excel.

We will change exports that we want in Excel to 97-2000. But because it is a different format you will not see previous exports in your save location. Thankfully new versions of Excel are backwards compatible so will still open the old file formats. I can then save them in the new format for improved security.

One thing to be careful of is that Excel 2007 was the first version that could handle large files. Excel 1997 - 2000 files are limited to 65,536 rows so if you are exporting large data sets you will need to use csv as suggested by others.

I share your frustration with no dates on Blackbaud articles. I found that article too but it is old, the current hosted version of Raiser's Edge is 7.96.