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Losing borders in transition from Excel 97 to 2024 Pro Plus
Your pen solution — Genuinely not a bad call for a personal calendar. Print, draw borders, done. If the data is right, the visual polish is a secondary concern.
The one thing most worth you can trying...
If you still have the Windows 7 machine: open the original .xls there, go to File → Save As, and save a copy as .xlsx (Excel 2007+ format) from within Excel 97's successor on that machine if possible — or at minimum, print everything to PDF from there. That preserves what you built without having to fight the format translation.
If the old machine is gone, Libre Office is your best free first attempt before resigning to the pen or a rebuild.
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Hope this will help you.
Thanks. I will try this and maybe a few variations. I still have the Windows 7 PC. However, it runs Excel 97 without a successor. I will see if it can save as xlsx. But I have another PC, maybe more, with an intermediate version of Excel. Maybe I can get my calendar to successfully "evolve" using that one.